What is INDECT?

Please note: this is not some kind of high-level EU agenda. It is a project put together by a couple of research groups to grab money from EU research grants. My personal experience with those grants (with several 'partners') is that the results are reviewed by friends&family.

Implement and deploy such a system in time for EURO 2012? Riiight. But I guess it looked good on the grant application.

Last time a polish newspaper featured an article about Indect, they wrote that Indect is going to infer your intentions from cameras before they even occur to you, and call the military for intervention (seriously!). There's a bit of minority-report-like fear in the news.

EDIT:

Source: http://www.polskatimes.pl/fakty/kraj/384367,inteligentny-sys...

One of the paragraph says about brain-wave reflection registered by computers that will be used to determine criminal intentions. And no, it doesn't seem to be intended to be a joke. God, I hate this kind of journalism.

Unfortunately I couldn't find a better source in English.

German Newspaper article: http://www.derwesten.de/politik/polen-plant-die-totale-ueber...

Wiki article on the project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INDECT

Telegraph article on the project: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6210255/EU-funding-Or...

Not just a test field, some of our best and brightest run the project -- it's coordinated by AGH: http://www.indect-project.eu/indect-partners

Neophytes are always the worst.

Ha! I just found out a colleague of mine did his PhD on a part of this and describes it as 'completely harmless'. :>

The page links to a Wikipedia entry that contradicts some of its claims.

According to Wikipedia: "As it can be seen in the project's documentation, INDECT does not involve mobile phone tracking or call interception. The rumors about testing INDECT during 2012 UEFA European Football Championship also turned out to be false."

Wow. I consider myself to be pretty well-informed both in privacy and general stuff happening in my country, but it's the first time I'm ever hearing about this.

The headline is sensational, but this is just Europe spending money on "valuable research".

It would be amusing to know a bit about how such a system works and intentionally trigger responses from it. If enough people did that, it would become useless.

Sounds pretty cool to me. In my opinion, this is what good security forces ought to be doing today. Whether or not the government should be doing it in public places is one matter, but if I was the owner of, e.g. a football stadium or large building complex, this is exactly the type of resources I would want my security force to have access to.