FBI intentionează să obţină accesul la baza de date biometrice ai Marii Britaniei, comunică ziarul britanic Guardian.Proiectului de creare a unei singuri baze de date cu denumirea de Consorţiu Informaţional Internaţional s-au alăturat, pe langa SUA şi Marea Britanie, alţi membri ai "coaliţiei antiteroriste" - Canada, Noua Zelanda şi Australia.
Informaţia personală este colectată de serviciile secrete sub pretextul "luptei antiteroriste" . Experţii sunt de părerea că nu este vorba doar de o unificare forţelor ai statelor din coaliţia antiterorista ci de combinaţii mult mai complicate.
Banca Britanică de date conţine informaţie a 7 milioane de oameni. Aceasta nu este o cifră atat de mare, luând în consideraţie faptul că potrivit unor date, pe serverele FBI din SUA şi Canada există deja 55 de milioane de amprente digitale. A se compara, SUA unde locuiesc 300 milioane de persoane şi Canada, unde locuiesc 35 milioane. Adică, munca FBI nu ar trebui deloc subapreciată, afirmă experţii.
Astfel, spre exemplu, în decembrie 2007 ziarul american The Washington Post a comunicat că FBI deja lucrează pentru crearea sistemului, numit "Next Generation Identification (NGI)". Colaboratorii acestui birou se ocupă activ cu colectarea de date biometrice, inclusiv fotografii, şi amprente digitale . Costurile acestui proiect se ridică la peste 1 miliard de dolari.
Se aşteaptă că în urma acordurilor americano-britanice acestor date să se adauge şi informaţii care ar conţine datele din retina ochior, datele cu privirea la forma feţei şi alte informaţii personale.
Experţii sunt de parere că în acest sistem al controlului total, vor dispărea orice limite care apără viaţa privată a cetaţeanului, creând nu doar discomfort ci şi un pericol psihologic, omul nevoind să trăiască zi de zi intr-un stres continuu.
Cu alte cuvinte, crearea bazelor de date biometrice globale şi răspândirea a unor astfel de tehnologii va avea mult mai multe efecte negative. "Biometrizarea omenirii se va răspândi, mai devreme sau mai târziu, pe întregul glob pământesc, doar că cineva va atinge acest nivel mai devreme, iar alţii mai tarziu", mai afirmă experţii citati de http://www.toaca.md/.
De ce vom fi osândiţi pentru semn?
Într-un articol putem citi: “Nici un semn nu ne va duce în iad, decât lepădarea de Hristos şi lipsa de iubire. Fără voia noastră liberă, nici un semn (pecete) nu va acţiona asupra noastră nici spre mântuire, dar nici spre osândă”. De asemenea. şi alţii ne-au pus întrebarea: “De ce, dacă vom avea un număr de cod pe mână, vom fi pedepsiţi şi trimişi în iad?”
Într-un articol putem citi: “Nici un semn nu ne va duce în iad, decât lepădarea de Hristos şi lipsa de iubire. Fără voia noastră liberă, nici un semn (pecete) nu va acţiona asupra noastră nici spre mântuire, dar nici spre osândă”. De asemenea. şi alţii ne-au pus întrebarea: “De ce, dacă vom avea un număr de cod pe mână, vom fi pedepsiţi şi trimişi în iad?”
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Articolele originale din Guardian, insotite de linkuri la comentarii:
Let's not spy for the FBI
Plans for the US to access UK citizen's personal information via a shared international database are disturbing: we shouldn't sign up to it
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guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 January 2008 14.30 GMT
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Plans for the US to access UK citizen's personal information via a shared international database are disturbing: we shouldn't sign up to it
Comments (99)
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 January 2008 14.30 GMT
Article history
News that the US government is in the process of constructing an international "wanted" database to share biometric information on a grand scale should be treated with caution. Biometrics - including DNA and fingerprints - are a vital weapon in the fight against crime. And cross-border crime is a growing problem. I am determined that Britain should work with our allies, in Europe and beyond, to defeat it. But giant databases that don't have adequate privacy protection systems are not the right way forward.
The details of how the US system will operate are still opaque. They may bring forward proposals we should support.
But I won't be holding my breath. It is typical of the US administration to go for overkill: giant solutions that sound great on paper but are based on unproven and even unworkable technologies. The "son of Star Wars" anti-ballistic missile system, which would attempt to shoot down incoming missiles, is a case in point. It's cost billions but not only does it anger countries like Russia, it doesn't even work.
Unfortunately, it is also typical of the UK government to doff its cap and sign up to any idea that emerges from Washington, however kooky. We're signed up to son of Star Wars. I expect we'll be signed up the FBI's "Server in the Sky" too, whether it's the right thing to do or not.
Biometrics are invaluable, but they are not 100% failsafe: nothing is. Remember: it's the US terrorism operations that put Yusuf Islam (the musician formerly known as Cat Stevens) on a "no-fly" list.
And once data is in the hands of the US authorities, there is no getting it back. We already send them massive amounts of information about air passengers, through a deal brokered by the European Commission, without any guarantee it will be properly safeguarded once it reaches the US. It would be foolhardy to start sharing further information without a simple guarantee: that data collected under UK law should continue to be protected even after it leaves Britain.
We should share information when other countries can guarantee data protection standards that match, or exceed our own. Otherwise, who knows which one of us will be on the no-fly list next.
FBI wants instant access to British identity data
Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm and finger prints
Owen Bowcott
The Guardian, Tuesday 15 January 2008
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Each person's iris is as individual as their fingerprint, but with 266 identifiable features is much more detailed. Photograph: Science Photo LibrarySenior British police officials are talking to the FBI about an international database to hunt for major criminals and terrorists.
The US-initiated programme, "Server in the Sky", would take cooperation between the police forces way beyond the current faxing of fingerprints across the Atlantic. Allies in the "war against terror" - the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - have formed a working group, the International Information Consortium, to plan their strategy.
Biometric measurements, irises or palm prints as well as fingerprints, and other personal information are likely to be exchanged across the network. One section will feature the world's most wanted suspects. The database could hold details of millions of criminals and suspects.
The FBI is keen for the police forces of American allies to sign up to improve international security. The Home Office yesterday confirmed it was aware of Server in the Sky, as did the Metropolitan police.
The plan will make groups anxious to safeguard personal privacy question how much access to UK databases is granted to foreign law enforcement agencies. There will also be concern over security, particularly after embarrassing data losses within the UK, and accuracy: in one case, an arrest for a terror offence by US investigators used what turned out to be misidentified fingerprint matches.
Britain's National Policing Improvement Agency has been the lead body for the FBI project because it is responsible for IDENT1, the UK database holding 7m sets of fingerprints and other biometric details used by police forces to search for matches from scenes of crimes. Many of the prints are either from a person with no criminal record, or have yet to be matched to a named individual.
IDENT1 was built by the computer technology arm of the US defence company Northrop Grumman. In future it is expected to hold palm prints, facial images and video sequences. A company spokeswoman confirmed that Northrop Grumman had spoken to the FBI about Server in the Sky. "It can run independently but if existing systems are connected up to it then the intelligence agencies would have to approve," she said.
The FBI told the Guardian: "Server in the Sky is an FBI initiative designed to foster the advanced search and exchange of biometric information on a global scale. While it is currently in the concept and design stages, once complete it will provide a technical forum for member nations to submit biometric search requests to other nations. It will maintain a core holding of the world's 'worst of the worst' individuals. Any identifications of these people will be sent as a priority message to the requesting nation."
In London, the NPIA confirmed it was aware of Server in the Sky but said it was "too early to comment on what our active participation might be".
The FBI is proposing to establish three categories of suspects in the shared system: "internationally recognised terrorists and felons", those who are "major felons and suspected terrorists", and finally those who the subjects of terrorist investigations or criminals with international links. Tom Bush, assistant director at the FBI's criminal justice information service, has said he hopes to see a pilot project for the programme up and running by the middle of the year.
Although each participating country would manage and secure its own data, the sharing of personal data between countries is becoming an increasingly controversial area of police practice. There is political concern at Westminster about the public transparency of such cooperation.
A similar proposal has emerged from the EU for closer security cooperation between the security services and police forces of member states, including allowing countries to search each other's databases. Under what is known as the Prum treaty, there are plans to open up access to DNA profiles, fingerprints and vehicle registration numbers.
Americans seek international database to carry iris, palm and finger prints
Owen Bowcott
The Guardian, Tuesday 15 January 2008
Article history
Each person's iris is as individual as their fingerprint, but with 266 identifiable features is much more detailed. Photograph: Science Photo LibrarySenior British police officials are talking to the FBI about an international database to hunt for major criminals and terrorists.The US-initiated programme, "Server in the Sky", would take cooperation between the police forces way beyond the current faxing of fingerprints across the Atlantic. Allies in the "war against terror" - the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand - have formed a working group, the International Information Consortium, to plan their strategy.
Biometric measurements, irises or palm prints as well as fingerprints, and other personal information are likely to be exchanged across the network. One section will feature the world's most wanted suspects. The database could hold details of millions of criminals and suspects.
The FBI is keen for the police forces of American allies to sign up to improve international security. The Home Office yesterday confirmed it was aware of Server in the Sky, as did the Metropolitan police.
The plan will make groups anxious to safeguard personal privacy question how much access to UK databases is granted to foreign law enforcement agencies. There will also be concern over security, particularly after embarrassing data losses within the UK, and accuracy: in one case, an arrest for a terror offence by US investigators used what turned out to be misidentified fingerprint matches.
Britain's National Policing Improvement Agency has been the lead body for the FBI project because it is responsible for IDENT1, the UK database holding 7m sets of fingerprints and other biometric details used by police forces to search for matches from scenes of crimes. Many of the prints are either from a person with no criminal record, or have yet to be matched to a named individual.
IDENT1 was built by the computer technology arm of the US defence company Northrop Grumman. In future it is expected to hold palm prints, facial images and video sequences. A company spokeswoman confirmed that Northrop Grumman had spoken to the FBI about Server in the Sky. "It can run independently but if existing systems are connected up to it then the intelligence agencies would have to approve," she said.
The FBI told the Guardian: "Server in the Sky is an FBI initiative designed to foster the advanced search and exchange of biometric information on a global scale. While it is currently in the concept and design stages, once complete it will provide a technical forum for member nations to submit biometric search requests to other nations. It will maintain a core holding of the world's 'worst of the worst' individuals. Any identifications of these people will be sent as a priority message to the requesting nation."
In London, the NPIA confirmed it was aware of Server in the Sky but said it was "too early to comment on what our active participation might be".
The FBI is proposing to establish three categories of suspects in the shared system: "internationally recognised terrorists and felons", those who are "major felons and suspected terrorists", and finally those who the subjects of terrorist investigations or criminals with international links. Tom Bush, assistant director at the FBI's criminal justice information service, has said he hopes to see a pilot project for the programme up and running by the middle of the year.
Although each participating country would manage and secure its own data, the sharing of personal data between countries is becoming an increasingly controversial area of police practice. There is political concern at Westminster about the public transparency of such cooperation.
A similar proposal has emerged from the EU for closer security cooperation between the security services and police forces of member states, including allowing countries to search each other's databases. Under what is known as the Prum treaty, there are plans to open up access to DNA profiles, fingerprints and vehicle registration numbers.
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