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 Face-profile photographs, arranged alphabetically in cardboard boxes, from the Second Empire have now been replaced by ever more sophisticated techniques, such as biometrics or the miniaturization of spyware.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