The Detecter Project

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The Detecter Project
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Detecter - Objectives
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Detecter what the project will do 1

• After 9/11 and the terrorist bombings in Madrid
  (11 March 2004) and London (07 July 2005),
  policing and intelligence activity have
  increasingly focused on methods of preventing
  future attacks, and not just on identifying the
  perpetrators of offences already committed.
• Preventive police work includes the use of
  detection technologies. These range from CCTV
  camera-surveillance of suspicious behaviour in
  public places to secret Internet monitoring and
  data-mining.

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Detecter what the project will do 2

• Such technologies raise ethical and legal issues
  (notably issues of privacy) that must be
  confronted against the background of the legal
  and ethical issues raised by counter-terrorism in
  general.
• This project will review a wide range of
  detection technologies, and identify the
  relative moral risks of preventive
  counter-terrorism measures.

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Detecter what the project will do 3

• Detecter will survey developments in
  international law in support of counter
  terrorism, particularly in human rights.
• It will look in detail at data mining,
  electronic surveillance of Internet traffic and
  the use of pre-entry screening measures for
  migrants, including asylum-seekers.

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Detecter what the project will do 4

• 6 2-day meetings are planned with policy makers,
  manufacturers and law-enforcement officials to
  present assessments of both desirable and
  undesirable features of detection technology
  products, as well as general standards for
  products to meet.

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Detecter - results

• The project will produce a substantial review of
  the human rights consequences of countering
  terrorism, including with detection technology.
• The project will meet with technology
  developers, commissioners and users and provide
  reports and papers setting out the moral, ethical
  and legal framework for these products.

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Detecter - results

• A survey of data mining technologies and
  electronic surveillance of the Internet and other
  counter terrorism techniques will be undertaken
  and assessed and safeguards proposed.
• A major conference will be held in the UK to
  disseminate the projects results to all those
  working in this field.

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