IP: Euro-Parl Surveillance Reports

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:56:14 -0400
> To: cypherpunks () toad com
> From: John Young <jya () pipeline com>
>
> We offer the European Parliament-sponsored reports which
> have been prepared as follow-up to the 1998 "Appraisal of
> the Technologies of Political Control."
>
> The four-part series is titled "Development of Surveillance 
> Technology and Risk of Abuse of Economic Information 
> (an appraisal of technologies of political control)," April and 
> May 1999.
>
> Part 1: "The perception of economic risks arising from the 
> potential vulnerability of electronic commercial media to 
> interception - Survey of opinions of experts. Interim Study," 
> by Nikos Bogonikolos: 
>
>    http://cryptome.org/dst-1.htm (158K, English)
>
> Part 2: "The legality of the interception of electronic 
> communications: A concise survey of the principal legal issues 
> and instruments under international, European and national law," 
> by Prof. Chris Elliott: 
>
>    http://cryptome.org/dst-2.htm (42K, English)
>
> Part 3: "Encryption and cryptosystems in electronic surveillance: 
> a survey of the technology assessment issues," by Dr. Franck 
> Leprévost: 
>
>    http://cryptome.org/dst-3.htm (81K, FR; EN trans invited)
>
> To round out the four parts, we point to the previously published
> Part 4: "The state of the art in Communications Intelligence 
> (COMINT) of automated processing for intelligence purposes of 
> intercepted broadband multi-language leased or common carrier 
> systems, and its applicability to COMINT targeting and selection, 
> including speech recognition," by Duncan Campbell: 
>
>    http://www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/stoa_cover.htm