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Date: 2004-02-25
Data-Mining in NSA-Datensaetzen-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- The attached e-mail was sent to the members of biometrics.org mailing yesterday. Me and others have been on this list for a few months being accepted by simply filling in a pretty short form. The full archive has been accessible to all of us who cared to subscribe since then. Anything described in this e-mail is just what is really happening to my best knowledge. The [public but somewhat hidden] list archive dates back to the early mid 1990ies and is sporting tar.zipped 12,3 MB in text form. There are a few Gigabytes of pretty closely related [non text only] doquments available over here to be matched with. The archive's disclaimer says contents are free to "academia" research http://www.biometrics.org/html/listserv.html The biometrics.org domain admin is located in Fort Meade, Maryland. http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=biometrics.org&type=domain BC-list members personal data processing legal notice Datum: Tue Feb 24 21:54:06 2004 Von: Erich M <erich.moechel@xxxxxxx.at An: BIOMETRICS@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Dear BC-list members, [This is a legal notice in compliance with European Data Protection laws and presumably my last posting here. Please refrain from responding to the list to avoid an off-topic string. If anybody should want to know more details pls use the adress in the *reply to* field and the pgp key below] As BC-list admins surely do know, the complete list archive was downloaded a few weeks ago. Data are currently being indexed and structured to be matched with a variety of other data sets. [see research project outlook below] Whereas - the European Data Protection Directive and harmonized Austrian law also cover the the privacy rights of Non-EU citizens - and considering the fact that BC-list archive contains an amount of personal information on list members [clear names, e-mail addresses, fone numbers etc.] - and that those data will be processed, kept available for a certain period of time and be published in parts Considering all that a legal notice containing a short description of the project was filed at the Austrian Data Protection Register at the Federal Chancellor's office last week. This is a routine process and apparently there are no restrictions to the first phase of the project. If any restrictions should apply to upcoming phases, everbody whose personal data are being processed may file a request at the Federal Chancellor's Office Information in English http://www.bka.gv.at/datenschutz/indexe.htm Project working title and scope "The roles of state security agencies, law enforcement and industries in the global standardization of network-based surveillance and tracking systems" Biometrics was chosen to begin with for the main reason of high data availability and excellent documentation. Datamining is being done by an independent group of engineers. All raw data no longer needed for the process will be moved to a "deleted record file." Interim results will be published during the upcoming months. The whole process is scheduled to last for 3,5 years. As has been done during the "proof of concept" phase raw data and results will be offered to the Institute of Technology Assessment at the Austrian Academy of Sciences for further research. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ita/welcome.htm BC-Listmembers who want to request his/her personal data be excluded from the process may do so by contacting a local data protection or civil liberties NGO. All Organizations will be informed in time Global List http://www.gilc.org/about/members.html List of European NGOs http://www.edri.org/ Recommended for US citizens: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. For any requests listmembers might consider necessary this pgp key could be useful. Pls abstain from e-mailing to my business address as your e-mail will be processed in a Windows network evironment. key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBFCCFD77 Tnx a lot for your patience sincerely yours Erich Moechel - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 2004-02-25 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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