SUBJECT:
Misleading information about INDECT
DATE: Thu, 17 Feb 2011
17:33:39 +0100
FROM: derkacz <derkacz@kt.agh.edu.pl>
TO:
sylvia@fiff.de
CC: fiff@fiff.de
Good afternoon,
Please
find attached a document with comments and clarifications to
information you give about INDECT.
We refer only to selected
statements that pass to the public misleading information about the
project.
27c3 was not the only case when you have given
misleading information about INDECT. We would be obliged if the
clarifications we send could be available at websites containing your
presentations and other statements about the project.
That would
be honest with respect to persons who are recipients of your
information and persons who are involved in the project.
We
were even more surprised to find out that broadcasting of the
misleading information did not stop after the event in Berlin where
clarifications to your presentation were given.
Similar set of
false and uncorrect statements could be found in leaflets distributed
at "Computers, Privacy & Data Protection CPDP 2011"
event in Brussels.
In your presentation you mentioned a few
times the question of ethics and lawfulness of what is done within
the project.
Do you think that concious broadcasting of untrue
information is ethical and lawful?
As I said to you in Berlin
we are open to answer questions relevant to INDECT.
A good
opportunity to become informed about work and outcomes of the project
will be an international conference organised by INDECT in June this
year: MCSS 2011. The scope of the conference includes ethical issues
and law aspects in video surveillance, Internet monitoring, security
research. Document with Call for Papers is attached to the mail -
please feel free to distribute the document.
Regards,
Jan
Derkacz
PS One of the charges against INDECT was that it
performs video recordings of citizents without their consent (which
by the way is not true). I was video-recorded at the event in Berlin
and, what is more, the recording was made public in Internet, both
without my consent. It would be interesting to have your opinion on
it.
Attachment: INDECT_Misunderstandings.pdf