New Counterterrorism Technology

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New Counterterrorism Technology Laws

• Help or hindrance?

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USA Patriot Act (Oct, 2001)

• Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
  Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
  Obstruct Terrorism
• Increased surveillance
• Monitoring Email and Phone call content without
  warrant
• Power to Sectary of State to define any foreign
  or local groups or individuals as terrorists
• Sunset in 2005
• Changes in Senate
• Changed back and passed through congress by Bush

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Europe

• European Arrest Warrant (EAW) replacing
  extrication
• Funding increased to ESA
• Coop agreements signed with all 25 state
  intelligence agencies, including C3
• Public order offences can now be classed as
  terrorism
• Clamping down on European history or civil
  disobedience
• Greenpeace charged under terrorism law in Norway
  (2005)

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Ireland
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Ireland

• Serious offence 6 months, not 5 years (1997 Bail
  Act)
• 12 month retention
• After consultation with ISPs didnt opt for 2
  years allowable by directive
• Data retained
• Names of Sender/Receiver IPs Times logged
  on/off Size Type of attachments Mobile phone
  info already available
• No warrant
• Garda Commissioner to make requests
• Must only report on the efficiency of handling

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Technology
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Technology

• Smart CCTV
• Face detection
• Video Motion Anomaly Detection (VMAD)
• Advanced Passenger Information System (US)
• full name, gender, date of birth, nationality,
  country of residence, and travel document type
  and number
• Quickly adapted from International Cargo System
  (ICS)
• Biometric Passports
• Chip readable from up to 7 meters away
• Arbitrary info now, but in future?

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September 11th

• Did things change?
• the events of that day were historic, because
  there was a radical and new change in the
  direction in which the guns were pointed. Pearl
  Harbor is the usual analogy, but it is not a good
  one, as in 1941 the Japanese bombed military
  bases in two US colonies (colonies disgracefully
  taken from their inhabitants). On 11 September US
  national territory was attacked on a large scale
  for the first time-Noam Chomsky, Terrorism,
  weapon of the powerful, United States, Global
  Bully

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Where were watched
Credit privacy international
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Terrorism on the rise..?

• Terrorism mentioned 1000 time in papers in 3
  years
• 664 people detained, 17 have been found guilty
  (15 IRA)
• Increase in surveillance decrease in civil
  rights obvious