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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mass surveillance
		Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof.
		Mass surveillance may be done either with or without the consent of those under surveillance, and may or may not serve their interests.
		For example, the monitoring of the population for disease in epidemiology would generally be viewed as a benign form of mass surveillance, whereas a network of secret police informers would be regarded as surveillance abuse.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mass-surveillance (4207 words)

	The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation by Floyd Rudmin
		Mass surveillance of the entire population is logically sensible only if there is a higher base-rate.
		Also, mass surveillance of the entire population is logically plausible if NSA's domestic spying is not looking for terrorists, but looking for something else, something that is not so rare as terrorists.
		Mass surveillance by NSA of all Americans' phone calls and emails would be very effective for domestic political intelligence.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig7/rudmin1.html (1108 words)

	The Panopticon: A Mass Surveillance Prison For Humanity
		This is an accurate description of the accelerating movement by western governments to erect giant, powerful, all-pervading mass surveillance, tracking and control grids that will keep all populations firmly under the baleful and watchful gaze of Big Brother.
		Consider today's BBC report concerning CCTV surveillance systems in an area of London which is planned to be expanded to include, just on its first implementation, tens of thousands of other citizens in other areas.
		GPS surveillance systems in cars are about to become mandatory and are in all new cars as standard.
	www.infowars.com /articles/bb/panopticon_mass_surveillance_prison.htm (1947 words)

	The Politics of Paranoia and Intimidation : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mass surveillance of the entire population is logically sensible only if there is a higher base-rate.
		Also, mass surveillance of the entire population is logically plausible if NSA's domestic spying is not looking for terrorists, but looking for something else, something that is not so rare as terrorists.
		Mass surveillance by NSA of all Americans' phone calls and emails would be very effective for domestic political intelligence.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1728235 (1173 words)

	Surveillance abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Surveillance abuse is the use of surveillance methods or technology to monitor the activity of an individual or group of individuals in a way which violates the social norms or laws of a society.
		Mass surveillance by the state may constitute surveillance abuse if not appropriately regulated.
		Covert surveillance by police and the use of informants to conduct surveillance was introduced in the 16th century in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surveillance_abuse (677 words)

	Surveillance for Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks at an Outdoor Mass Gathering --- Virginia, 2005
		Syndromic surveillance, in conjunction with active visits with subcamp medical staff to reinforce surveillance importance and inquire about illness, alerted the epidemiology team to the GI outbreak in group C and heat-related events and enabled the public health team to monitor other injury and illness trends.
		Syndromic surveillance at a smaller outdoor gathering of a different group in Pennsylvania in 1999 identified diarrheal illnesses, musculoskeletal injuries, and bites as the most common events for which participants sought care (2).
		The syndromic surveillance system used for this gathering could be improved by implementation of an electronic medical record system, which would allow for immediate and real-time disease reporting and would eliminate the need for additional staff time to complete forms.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5503a3.htm (2250 words)

	Surveillance
		Mass surveillance means that everything is actually watched or is likely to be watched at the whim of one or more of the covert agencies of government.
		However, because the surveillance technologies that were originally developed for military and political use exist, they are deployed against you and I. The major focus of covert surveillance has been economic, with a new, secondary, thrust aimed at eventually monitoring all citizens, as distinct from businesses and foreign firms.
		All such surveillance activities are out of step with democracy, and it is entirely legitimate for citizens of any nominally democratic state to insist of their right of inspection and elimination of surveillance systems.
	www.javaspider.com /freenet/-date=20051130-12.htm (7563 words)

	The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove
		The masses are motivated not so much by scarcity of fear of punishment (as in Orwell's society), as by the promise of ever-increasing abundance.
		The surveillance component of social control is changing in subtle and often invisible ways, the element of which are voluntary and not defined as surveillance.
		And, because of the technical nature of the surveillance and its distancing aspects, the accused may (at least initially) be unable to face the accuser.
	web.mit.edu /gtmarx/www/iron.html (9789 words)

	ENDitorial : Fighting Mass Surveillance \| EDRI
		We are challenging the European Institutions and the Irish government through the courts to stop their program of mass surveillance of citizens.
		These mass surveillance laws are a direct, deliberate attack on our right to have a private life, without undue interference by the government.
		We say that this kind of mass surveillance is a breach of Human Rights, as recognised in the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter on Fundamental Rights which all EU member states have endorsed.
	www.edri.org /edrigram/number4.17/enditorial (955 words)

	[Infoshop News] **A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance (Site not responding. Last check: )*
		This surveillance is not being designed to monitor only citizen movement on a global scale, but is also being designed to lay open to the various governments ALL personal and private matters of finance, health, political affiliation, and religious preferences, electronic communication and on, and on, and on.
		The worst that individuals have to fear from the global system of mass surveillance is something far darker than "mere" loss of privacy, civil liberties, freedom of movement, or loss of democratic patrimonies.
		Reference: The International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) was founded by the American Civil Liberties Union, Focus on the Global South, the Friends' Committee on National Legislation, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group and Statewatch.
	flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2006-February/005404.html (2092 words)

	Surveillance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Legislation seems unable to cope with the variety and extent of surveillance today and it would be fair to say that since the first privacy laws were proclaimed in 1970, surveillance of all types has increased rather than decreased.
		Mass surveillance is the surveillance of groups of people, usually large groups.
		Surveillance of this type is usually carried out either by the police or with their support for the purposes of preventing deviant or criminal behaviour or to enable capture and prosecution of criminals after the fact.
	www.vladk.com /Essays/surveillance/surveillance.htm (8874 words)

	A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance Part 2
		"Scam" is a harsh word, but as one examines the true nature of the programs for mass surveillance of global populations it will be seen that "scam" is a word far too benign to truly describe the programs presently underway.
		In essence, this succession is exemplified by Clinton's domestic and global surveillance system being handed to Bush who was "honor" (sic) bound to embellish whatever Clinton had in place.
		The scheme toward global surveillance is being pursued with the utmost stealth by all the government entities participating in the programs.
	informationclearinghouse.info /article12140.htm (2434 words)

	A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance By Nolan K. Anderson
		It is now clear that the U.S. and other countries participating in the global surveillance project are engaging in torture, inhumane treatment, and indefinite detention.
		The International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) was founded by the American Civil Liberties Union, Focus on the Global South, the Friends’ Committee on National Legislation, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group and Statewatch.
		Nolan K. Anderson is a retired engineer and a veteran of Korea who was once a “conservative” until he found there was nothing left to conserve and as a veteran hates to see a tour in Korea go to waste.
	www.williambowles.info /spysrus/mass_surveillance.html (1981 words)

	Mass surveillance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2004 it was estimated[2] that the United Kingdom was monitored by over four million CCTV cameras, some with a facial recognition capacity, with practically all town centres under surveillance.
		Most East German citizens were well aware that their government was spying on them, which led to a culture of mistrust: touchy political issues were only discussed in the comfort of their own four walls and only with the closest of friends and family members, while widely maintaining a facade of unquestioning followership in public.
		Nineteen Eighty-Four, a novel by George Orwell depicting life under an omnipresent totalitarian state, and is probably the most prominent of the media listed; the 'Big Brother' who watches over the novel's characters is now used to describe any form of spying on or interfering with the public, such as CCTV cameras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mass_surveillance (1330 words)

	Mass Surveillance for Dummies -- Part 4
		This is the type reasoning that government shysters use to confuse any politician or entity brave enough, lucky enough or stupid enough to blunder upon their hidden world of mass surveillance programs for all the inhabitants of the planet.
		The power of present-day programs of mass surveillance is truly futuristic, beyond comprehension and beyond oversight and control.
		Surveillances, interactions - each of which may be taken in isolation as not a particularly meaningful piece of information, but when fused together, gives us a sense of the patterns and the flow that really is at the core of what intelligence analysis is really about.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article12596.htm (2069 words)

	Treasonous Devices: Weapons of Mass Surveillance \| Corrente
		The Network Architecture of Treason, alert reader philosophicus outlined the network locations and the hardware required for a large scale Internet surveillance system to be set up, and concluded that such a system would present no significant technical challenges.
		We have placed our monitoring devices at certain “target rich environments” on the Internet: the major switches and routers controlled by the carriers, the twenty or so hubs through which most of the world’s packets flow, most of which are located on U.S. territory.
		The surveillance device that we’ve been discussed here is a weapon of war, and its use to monitor email is a tactic of war.
	www.correntewire.com /treasonous_devices_weapons_of_mass_surveillance_4 (3103 words)

	Digital Rights Ireland » Mass surveillance
		We are at the edge of Europe, but our legal action challenging mass surveillance has implications for the whole European Union.
		Data Retention, as legislated for in Ireland and mandated by the Data Retention Directive is unjustified mass surveillance.
		Mandatory recording and retention of European citizens’ telephone calls by telephone companies and their online behaviour by Internet Service Providers creates a precedent for mass surveillance and is likely to chill freedom of expression on political and social issues that are at the very core of a well-functioning democracy.
	www.digitalrights.ie /category/mass-surveillance (2648 words)

	I C A M S
		Under the public's radar screen, a registration and surveillance infrastructure of global reach is quietly being constructed.
		It includes the convergence of national and international databases, the creation of data profiles for whole populations, the creation of a global ID system, the global surveillance of movement, and the global surveillance of electronic communications.
		The International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) has launched a petition to demand that international organizations and national governments stop participating in the construction of this system.
	www.i-cams.org (148 words)

	CPSR - CPSR endorses International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS)
		The International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) was founded by the American Civil Liberties Union, Focus on the Global South, the Friends' Committee on National Legislation, the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, and Statewatch.
		This infrastructure would ensure that populations around the world are registered, that travel is tracked globally, that electronic communications and transactions can be easily monitored, and that all the information that is collected in public and private databases about individuals is stored, linked, data-mined, and made available to state security agents.
		The object of the infrastructure is not ordinary police work, but mass surveillance of entire populations.
	www.cpsr.org /issues/privacy/icams/view?navBatchStart=0 (647 words)

	The International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Under the public's radar screen, a registration and surveillance infrastructure of global reach is quietly being constructed.
		The International Campaign Against Mass Surveillance (ICAMS) has launched a petition to demand that international organizations and national governments stop participating in the construction of this system.
		The ICAMS report, "The Emergence Of A Global Infrastructure For Mass Registration And Surveillance", was published with the launch of the campaign.
	www.burojansen.nl /campaign (264 words)

	USATODAY.com - Limit camera surveillance (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We may not generally have an expectation of privacy in a public place in terms of what others may see or hear, but new technologies have virtually unlimited capability to inspect, record and assess.
		Surveillance technology is valuable precisely because it destroys our expectation of privacy.
		EPIC helped develop the ABA recommendations and the video surveillance guidelines for Washington, D.C. But the reality is that mass surveillance technology is far outpacing legal protections.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-08-01-oppose_x.htm (455 words)

	FIPA /home/activities/12
		The campaign is calling on countries around the globe to rein in the growing number of "intrusive and discriminatory measures" that profile, monitor and track individuals in the name of fighting terrorism.
		Citizens and groups around the world are being asked to endorse a declaration that mass surveillance is not the solution to terrorism.
		"The object of the infrastructure is not ordinary police work, but mass surveillance of entire populations," says a declaration issued by campaign members.
	fipa.bc.ca /home/activities/12 (224 words)

	Wired News: Mass Spying Means Gross Errors
		This answer is easy in a world where we know that technologies of mass surveillance, or TMS, are effective against terrorism, where we have unlimited resources for national security, and where there's no cost when the technology malfunctions, is intentionally abused or innocently misused.
		Proposals to install face-recognition technology at airports and public gatherings, to data-mine collections of government and commercial databases, and to profile airline passengers are feasible only with modern technology.
		But this kind of surveillance may not fit into the forms for court orders because their function is to identify targets, not to conduct surveillance of targets already identified.
	www.wired.com /news/columns/0,70035-0.html?tw=rss.index (754 words)

	Techdirt: Mass Surveillance Means Working Harder, Not Smarter
		For many years we've discussed why simply collecting more data for the purposes of surveillance is a bad idea.
		Over at Wired News, Jennifer Granick is arguing persuasively about recent efforts to automate mass surveillance, and how it will actually make the job of stopping criminals and terrorists more difficult, by simply adding to the load.
		For proof, just look at new reports from FBI officials saying that the NSA has been dumping so much useless data on them that it's taken them away from useful investigations.
	www.techdirt.com /articles/20060118/0240235_F.shtml (926 words)

	Soul Train: The New Surveillance and Popular Music
		Mass media communication about surveillance may serve as a soft means of social control by offering morality tales of what happens to those caught by panoptic mechanisms and by advertising the presence of control.
		Surveillance and content may also overlap in the tracking systems that measure mass media consumption —whether the statistical inferences drawn from Nielsen ratings, records from cable and satellite transmissions, internet communication or music purchases.
		Protective and romantic surveillance tend to be consensual and to serve the interests of both the watched and the watcher.
	web.mit.edu /gtmarx/www/popmusic.html (12758 words)

	United for Peace of Pierce County, WA - We nonviolently oppose the reliance on unilateral military actions rather than ...
		Floyd Rudmin of the University of Tromso, Norway, used Bayes' Theorem to demonstrated that "mass surveillance of an entire population cannot find terrorists.
		The conditional probability that people are terrorists given that the NSA surveillance system says they are, that had better be very near to one (p=1.00) and very far from zero (p=0.00).
		Suppose that NSA's system is really, really, really good, with an accuracy rate of.90, and a misidentification rate of.00001, which means that only 3,000 innocent people are misidentified as terrorists.
	www.ufppc.org /content/view/4536 (1307 words)

	Mass Transit - Safety Vision
		For over a decade, Safety Vision has supported the Mass Transit industry's safety and security initiatives by providing high quality, technologically advanced onboard surveillance and recording systems that are designed to overcome challenges inherent in public transportation.
		Because the video is recorded at high frame rates (up to 300 frames per second, from up to 10 onboard cameras) with the most sophisticated compression technology available, properties get the best of both worlds: high quality, full motion video in a reduced file size that can be easily saved, stored, and transferred.
		The Mass Transit industry requires a sophisticated, comprehensive mobile video solution that is easy to use and supported by a knowledgeable and responsive staff.
	www.safetyvision.com /en/cms/?23 (410 words)

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