Reuters: ‘Irked by U.S., but EU keeps own spy projects quiet’

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Reuters reported the following:

Irked by U.S., but EU keeps own spy projects quiet

July 17, 2015

Revelations of U.S. spying in Europe have soured transatlantic relations, prompting a White House apology and, as leak followed leak over the past two years, have fostered feelings of moral superiority among Europeans.

Yet EU governments are stepping up surveillance of their own citizens…the 28-nation European Union itself, as a collective institution, is spending hundreds of millions of euros developing security technologies that civil liberties watchdogs say jeopardize rights to privacy. …

With concerns growing over Islamist violence even before the attacks in Paris in January, EU spending on security research, at 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in the bloc’s 7-year budget from 2014, is 20 percent up on the previous period.

EU officials estimate that represents a hefty 40 percent of all such spending by the bloc’s 28 member states, many of which lack capacity to develop such technology themselves. Among top priorities are finding ways to focus mass surveillance of the Internet, email, mobile phones and social networks on suspects.

“Member states do conduct their own research,” said an EU official familiar with such projects who spoke privately as he was not authorized to speak. “But a lot of them like to go through us – it helps keep some of this stuff at arm’s length.”

Most of the research the EU funds, much of it by private firms including from non-European states such as the United States and Israel, is listed in public tender documents, though these are time-consuming to consult. But about a tenth of the spending is set aside for work classified as top secret. …

Despite EU insistence that systems are designed to be kept under strict judicial control, some experts note that, once developed with EU cash, the software and devices owned by private firms could be used by any future buyer with fewer scruples. …

Gaudino’s firm was partner in a three-year EU-sponsored project known as CAPER – Collaborative information Acquisition, Processing, Exploitation and Reporting. Concluded nine months ago, it created a platform for police and security agencies to share data gathered in pursuit of organized crime gangs. …

EU-funded security projects are no strangers to criticism.

One, known as INDECT, which ran for five years until 2014, developed ways to identify potential criminals using software to collate and analyze disparate information collected for example from CCTV, drones, GPS location services on phones.

Critics called it a real-life “Big Brother”.

“The shift from identifying offenders to preventing crime implies that the presumption of innocence is no longer the normal case, but that all citizens are becoming suspects,” argues David Wright, editor of ‘Surveillance in Europe’, an overview of the sector published last year. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/17/us-eu-security-surveillance-insight-idUSKCN0PR0TK20150717

The purpose of the INDECT project is to involve European scientists and researchers in the development of solutions to and tools for automatic threat detection. www.indect-project.eu/ accessed 07/17/15

The goal of the CAPER project is to create a common platform for the prevention of organised crime through sharing, exploitation and analysis of Open and private information sources.

The CAPER project is supported by the European Commission…:

CAPER main features are:

Information acquisition from a linguistically neutral point of view

Information Processing having into account different information types and different cultural biases

Information Exploitation through a Visual Analytics component

Standardisation for interchange of data and tools

Integration with Large scale Systems

Secure knowledge sharing and collaboration

Study and recommendations about legal, ethical and societal issues

User focused

CAPER will support collaborative multilingual analysis of audiovisual content (video, audio, speech and images) and biometrics information, based on Visual Analytics and Data Mining technologies. The integration of database technologies (ETL), application workflow and Semantic Modelling of processes and legal limitations will permit participating LEAs share informational, investigative and experiential knowledge. The CAPER platform will be built in close collaboration with the LEA users in order to fulfil their current and forthcoming needs. The project is clearly focused on the fusion and real validation of existing state of the art to solve current bottlenecks faced by LEAs. http://www.fp7-caper.eu/ accessed 07/17/15

As the quotes from the INDECT and CAPER websites show, Europe is not totally quiet about what it is doing. Basically, the continental Europeans have more trust that their rights are considered by European espionage than they do by USA and/or UK espionage. Bible prophecy suggests that that the trust that they have is misplaced (cf. Revelation 13:16-18).

As regular readers of this page are aware, because of the Edward Snowden leaks, Wikileaks, and other revelations, many in Europe are outraged by actions by the USA, and also the UK. The continental Europeans considered that the USA and UK were their friends and allies, and they remain upset.

The continental Europeans will not forget this. The USA as, and will, engage in additional appeasement related to this.

It is not that the Europeans do not have a double-standard like the US or the UK, but the biblical reality is that they are prophesied to do surveillance as that would be consistent with the following:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18)

Those in the USA, Canada (whose espionage was also highlighted by Edward Snowden), and UK may hope that the continental Europeans will simply overlook all of their espionage, yet the time will come when the Europeans will take successful military actions against the USA, Canada, and their Anglo-Saxon allies (cf. Daniel 11:39) and the world will marvel at the success of the European actions (Revelation 13:4).

European espionage and technology will be part of that.

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