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by Christophe » 19/10/11, 13:19

A file in the NouvelObs on modern surveillance techniques ...

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All on file, all watched: the new Big Brother

Folder. As the police files have multiplied, the high-tech giants are the new kings of cops. States and the private sector hold billions of personal data. Did you say Big Brother?

(Find the entire file "Tous Fichés" in the weekly newspaper on newsstands Wednesday, October 19, 2011 and the listing of the authors)

The news, these last days, makes you dizzy. Closure of the Copwatch police file site, listing made public of the Sidaction personnel department full of references on the mental and physical health or the ethnic origin of its employees, indictment of Bernard Squarcini, central director of internal intelligence , following the telephone spying of a journalist from "Le Monde" who followed the affair, concerns aroused by the right on the census of voters in the socialist primary… If we still doubted it, the surveillance of citizens has never was also strong and insidious. Face-profile photographs, arranged alphabetically in cardboard boxes, from the Second Empire have now been replaced by ever more sophisticated techniques, such as biometrics or the miniaturization of spyware. State surveillance is coupled with new competitors. The Big Brothers of the 2010s can also take, more simply, the appearance of a next-door neighbor, member of a vigilance network, or that of an email on Facebook that takes control of all your personal data. The "Nouvel Observateur" explores behind the scenes of the file.

Extract from the file "Tous Fichés" published in "Le Nouvel Observateur" on newsstands October 19, 2011

Will vote, not vote? Sunday October 9, first round of the primary. Laura hesitates. "I want to go, but what bothers me is being listed as a socialist. Opinions are secret. Who tells me that the Interior Ministry will not be there? access? " Her boyfriend is ironic. "We are all already on file!" Finally, Laura voted, not without ensuring that the attendance lists would be destroyed after the announcement of the results. Big Brother, this is the new modern fear. The climate lends itself to it: journalists spied on, the companion of François Hollande watched by the RG, if one believes "the Express"; in short, the time is with the return of the barbouzes. In "1984", George Orwell envisioned the state, omnipresent, all-powerful Big Brother. The police services today have technologies that would make the English writer shudder. Biometrics, GPS chips, facial recognition… But coping is no longer the prerogative of the State. It is also the work of private pharmacies and, above all, of the lords of the network and the kings of telecoms. Terrorism and innovation have been its most effective promoters.

Fall 2001. The attacks on the World Trade Center lead to a proliferation of security files. At the same time, a handful of computer geniuses, including Mark Zuckerberg, future boss of Facebook, are pondering the internet of the future, while engineers from Apple and other Nokia are already working on smart phones. Ten years later, billions of personal data have been collected in the name of security imperatives and the law of the market. Stored in the computers of police stations, intelligence services and high-tech companies: DNA samples, digital fingerprints, photographs, names, first names, addresses, sizes, weight, tastes ... "Today, everyone is on file at least once somewhere, rebels Alex Türk, ex-president of the CNIL. Without knowing where, why, or for how long. "

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Suite and source: http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/societe/ ... other.html

In summary:

Filing: What does the law say?

Filing is governed by the law of January 6, 1978, known as "Informatique et Libertés". Unless there are exceptions, files cannot be created without being declared to the CNIL, which can contest their legality. The collection of private data is subject to the publication of general conditions of use. Listed citizens must be informed about the collection and use of their personal data. They can also consult, rectify or delete them, if necessary by submitting a complaint to the CNIL. According to the French Association of Correspondents for the Protection of Personal Data (AFCDP), 82% of companies and administrations do not comply with the obligations provided for by law.

Numbers:

- The Stic police file listed 6,2 million names at the end of 2010 and 41 million incidents

- The national DNA file (Fnaeg) had stored 1,2 million profiles at the end of 2010

- The Automated Fingerprint File (FAED) listed 3,6 million individuals in early 2011

- In 2010, gendarmes and police carried out 43.000 wiretaps, representing a 65% increase in 4 years

- Claude Guéant has set a target of 45.000 surveillance cameras in France by the end of 2011

- The Cnil totaled 1,3 million files declared at the end of 2009 compared to 650.000 in 1999

- Each year nearly 70.000 new files are declared to the CNIL

- France had 38,23 million Internet users in early 2001. 20 million are registered on social networks

- French people spend an average of 5 hours a month on social media, twice as much as 2 years ago


A concrete case of SMS surveillance dating from 2009: https://www.econologie.com/forums/big-brothe ... t7561.html
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by Christophe » 19/10/11, 23:43

A second NouvelObs interview article (probably the same paper file): http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/societe/ ... reter.html

"Big Brother will soon be unstoppable"

Faced with the proliferation of files, Alex Türk, senator from the North and former president of the National Commission for Data Protection (Cnil), raises a cry of alarm. Interview.


After eight years of presidency of the Cnil, you launch a cry of alarm on a company which goes further than the Big Brother imagined by George Orwell in "1984". What are your biggest fears for the future?

- What worries me the most is the laissez-faire. In five or ten years, our way of life will have been profoundly disrupted, the protection of individual freedoms will have been altered, but it will be too late. The public authorities, in France as elsewhere, must put in place instruments to assess the advantages and dangers of technologies, in particular in the fields of video surveillance, biometrics, geolocation and development of the Internet network. For now, nothing has been done. And I am extremely pessimistic about the future, I have no illusions ... With my book "Private life in danger" [ed. Odile Jacob], I wanted to take a date on what I was able to observe during my eight years of presidency of the Cnil and to alert on the state of emergency. Our freedoms are being cut back a little more each day, slowly and gradually. One day, we will realize it, but it will be too late, it will have gone too far.

Do the four points that you mention constitute the future projects of the Cnil, and therefore of your successor Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin?

- We worked together for several months on many files, and each time these points came up as priorities. Video surveillance and biometrics are not the most complicated matters, not the least dangerous, but not the most complex. The public authorities can, and must, legally regulate these areas. For video surveillance, we can for example imagine a charter which sets a series of rules that affect retention periods, the limitation of people who have access to the system, etc. But for fields such as geolocation or network development, the decision is no longer Franco-French but requires international agreements, with the imposition of standards. The Europeans must bang their fists on the table and have the political courage - which they do not have at all today - to say that "it cannot go on any longer". It is unacceptable that European law does not apply to European consumers when it comes to a major American player.

Could this approach be integrated into the current revision of the European directive of 1995 which defines internet legislation?

- I hope so. In any case, it will be an opportunity. But I have no illusions. I await a strong proposal, but what I have seen so far is not pleasing ...



What scares you the most about our future "Big Brother" society?

- Especially social networks, planetary with infinite ramifications, and geolocation, invisible and irreversible. Nanotechnologies are expected to be used in information systems one day. We will then end up with thousands, even millions, of RFID chips [radio-identification, Editor's note] invisible to the eye and scattered everywhere at the initiative of the public or private sector. We will soon regret the idea of ​​the good old Big Brother, visible and belly. With these thousands of invisible "nano-Brothers" who roam everywhere in nature, we will then be faced with an irreversible phenomenon. Information systems will see and hear remotely. We will never have the absolute certainty of being alone again, and will always be heard, seen, watched ... It is absolutely unbearable!

Regarding your mandate as president of the CNIL, you have been criticized for your position on the Hadopi file, a high authority aiming to combat illegal downloading.

- Don't you think it's starting to be cheesy to talk about Hadopi? There must be a reason ... On this issue, the opinion given by Cnil was mixed, reserved. However, as president of the CNIL, I must admit that I deliberately voted in favor of the Hadopi dossier. With hindsight, everyone recognizes that it's a bit of a mess. The whole thing turns out in a way that is difficult to understand. But I have an admiration for those who, on the Hadopi file, have a decided position. Even today, I am torn between the dilemma of protecting the freedom of creation and protecting the freedom of expression. For the moment, there is no good solution and I am still waiting for someone to make a real proposal to solve this problem.

Two weeks ago you resigned from the Cnil. Why did you prefer your mandate as senator to that of president of the CNIL?

- It was mainly a question of clarity. I could have kept both functions until September 1, 2012 [as provided for in an amendment], but then I should have made a choice anyway. There, Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin has at least three years ahead of her to achieve what she wants. I was president of the CNIL for eight years. In eight years, I did a big job, but I thought that someone new, with different ideas, could only be beneficial. In fact, I resigned in the interest of the CNIL. I would like to pass on to Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin a beautiful tool, which she will now take to a higher level. But I do not want to become the computer and liberties man of the Senate. And above all, I do not want to put Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin in an overhang, particularly with amendments that contradict her. I'll give her a royal peace. I prefer to get out of the game, even if it will sometimes be a heartbreak.

Interview with Alex Türk, senator from the North and former president of the National Commission for Data Protection (Cnil), by Boris Manenti (Thursday, September 29, 2011)


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You are told to be wary of pornosocial networks!
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by manet42 » 01/11/11, 18:06

There is not only Big Brother .... National education finally the ministry of ... is also put there, after the filing and the classification of the pupils from 5 years, a new investigation which did not made of noise:
At the start of the new school year, a sample of 15 CP pupils will be followed throughout their schooling, with specific activities (?), Follows a long questionnaire on the family:
-Who does the student live with? Father, mother, non-father or non-mother spouses, etc.
-Activity of the father, how long unemployed, etc ...
-Same thing for the mother.
- Same thing for the person in charge of the pupil if not father or mother.
- Personal and professional telephone of the above people.

Reason: to set up an educational policy which fully meets the needs of all : Lol:
All this in my grandson's class where they are 32 .....

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by Christophe » 12/06/13, 18:52

http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2013/ ... s-de-1984/

BIG BROTHER - Personal data surveillance scandal boosts sales of "1984"

Since the revelations on the surveillance of telephone communications and personal data of Internet users by the American government, in particular with the Prism program, sales of the reference novel by George Orwell, 1984, have increased by 6% on Tuesday, reports France Info. The book went from 000th to 7th place in Amazon's best sellers in a few days this Wednesday morning, even reaching 636th place Tuesday afternoon, according to NBC News.

The science fiction novel, published in 1949, put into everyday language its famous Big Brother, figure of the totalitarian state and the extreme control of freedoms and privacy, whose motto "Big Brother is watching you "(" Big Brother is watching you "), written on every street corner, is responsible for recalling the omnipresence. This expression also hit a peak in Google searches on Monday, June 9, three days after the revelations of the NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance programs began.

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by Christophe » 18/07/13, 09:45

http://www.levif.be/info/actualite/belg ... 628500.htm

“To vote a law if“ privaticide ”in three weeks, during the holidays, it is shameful. Democratically, there is a problem. In off, this lawyer close to the Commission for the protection of the private life (CPPP) does not mince his words when he evokes the bill Vande Lanotte-Turtelboom. A project on "data retention" which, under the guise of fighting terrorism and serious crime, plans to monitor all the inhabitants of the kingdom, nothing less!

SMS, emails, landline, mobile or Internet phone calls: in theory, few exchanges will escape its tentacles. Each telecommunication supplier (Belgacom, Telenet, Voo, Base, Mobistar ...) must keep the data of its customers for at least one year. With the exception of its content, justice and the intelligence services will be able to obtain all the details of a communication.

In fact, this was already the case. At least in part. Telecom operators have been storing their customers' billing data, numbers called or received, and their Internet connection data for twelve months. But not the details of the emails sent or received. Each of them has set up a “judicial coordination” unit responsible for responding to requests from the authorities. At Mobistar, for example, the cell employs ten people and processes around 30 requests per year. The new law will provide them with a real legal framework, but also additional costs. Belgacom assesses them at "several hundred thousand euros" per year. At the expense of the client? Too early to say. In return, the State pays the operators for each consultation of the data. In 000, the cost for Belgium was 2008 million euros. Note that since then, the fees have been reduced by half.

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by Flytox » 14/06/16, 22:28

For a few months now, this ^ at] é ~ 2 £ $ # & (censored) from Sky pe has wanted me to update it at all costs. I am trying the new version which is not possible to implement without creating a µSaufte account. So I install again with some difficulty .... the old version. The update reminders are more than ubiquitous .... until today or a small message tells me that they have made the update without my consent. Finally, in a sub menu (Help?) I ended up finding a less succinct explanation:


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So Winedaube was already doing this kind of update joke without warning, against my will, but now the shops they bought (Sky pe) allow the same thing ??? Soon no way to control the content of his µ. : Shock: : Evil:
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by Christophe » 14/06/16, 22:51

Well, this is the krosoft 2016 method ... same for forcing Windows 10 ...

Solution: do without skype (just like you can do without windows) ... there are alternatives now ... it's been years that I find the updates more and more crappy ...
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by GuyGadebois » 19/06/20, 16:40

I go up this thread:
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by GuyGadebois » 19/06/20, 16:57

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“It is better to mobilize your intelligence on bullshit than to mobilize your bullshit on intelligent things. (J.Rouxel)
"By definition the cause is the product of the effect". (Tryphion)
"360 / 000 / 0,5 is 100 million and not 72 million" (AVC)
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by Christophe » 20/06/20, 13:37

No need for illegal eavesdropping when you have (almost all) Google in your pocket, the news of the day: society-and-philosophy / stop-covid-19-l-app-t16436.html # p400989
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