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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

we have been observing project INDECT from its start in 2009 and have been worried about its accordance with the democratic and constitutional principles of the Federal Republic of Germany and the European Union.

We noticed several discrepancies between what the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) and what members of project INDECT said. In order to solve these contradictions and guard against misunderstandings, we kindly ask the following questions to be answered.

• According to your press release, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) refuses to make use of the results of project INDECT. But if the BMI supported the practical implementation of the project results, would the BKA have to comply? Or would the BKA have a chance to object BMI’s order by not implementing INDECT?

• A report of the ARD-program “Kontraste” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRlGZ4iej4&feature=youtu.be&t=5m15s) shows unambiguously how the BKA was taking part in project INDECT by presenting its own project “Fotofahndung” (picture tracing). Did the BKA provide assistance or advice to project INDECT in any other respect? Is the BKA involved in project INDECT in any form at the time being?

• In your letter “Ausschusssache 17(4)414″ (Report to the Committee on Internal Affairs of the German Bundestag  about the form, extent and objectives of the participation in the European research project INDECT), page 2, line 2f mention the “acquisition of multimedia content”. What multimedia content is meant and how is it to be acquired?

• INDECT is financed mainly by the European Union. How much money has been supplied to the project, by the EU as well as by the German federal government? Are any further payments planned by either the EU or the German Federal government? If yes: How much and when?

• INDECT startet research in 2009; the project was to last five years. Will the research definitely end in 2013? Would an earlier or later end date be possible for the EU and/or the BMI or is that planned?

• Several European organisations take part in research and development within the project INDECT. What is the current concept of the German Federal government for the cooperation between the German Federal government respectively othe European governments and the private organisations concerning the implementation of project INDECT. What does the communication chart look like?

• Does the BMI ensure that such technologies won’t be sold to dictatorships for sole economical reasons? If yes: How would that be ensured?

We are looking forward to your answers and hope that you can help us in understanding better the motivation the INDECT research is driven by. This letter and your answers may be published.

This is a call to all my Polish readers. Let your voices be heard! At the start of this summer, there will be a meeting regarding project INDECT. I’m asking you to stand up, demonstrate and make sure your representatives in the government understand that this is a serious matter! If you have never read 1984 by Orwell, than you definitely should. At least, that is if you want to know what your future will look like if we don’t do something right now!

Later, I will post a message telling you when I will be going to Poland, also to protest against this ‘Orwellian’ way of controlling our society. Let me know when you will be going, and what the plans are. We have to stand up. I will not live in a world where our government needs to control ever-existing, potential threats by controlling innocent people like you and me.

Click here to read more about ’5th International Conference On Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS ’12)

Aims and Goals of the Conference

In recent years, Multimedia Communications, Services and Security have
been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to
be among the most important applications in the future. The objective of
the Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS’11) conference
is to present research and developing activities contributing to aspects
of multimedia communications, systems and security. We are inviting both
theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress
research. The main topics of interest are as follows:

Audio-visual systems including novel multimedia architectures/platforms and management of service oriented architectures
Multimedia and data fusion in personal, sensor, peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks
Acquisition of multimedia content and Quality of Experience management in content distribution networks
Seamless mobility of multimedia services including mobile and broadband wireless access networks
Watermarking technology and applications
Network measurement/monitoring and performance evaluation of multimedia services
Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services
Searching methods, search engines and applications
Multimedia surveillance and compound security
Semantic description of multimedia data and metadata information systems
Intelligent monitoring of objects and areas, recognition with automatic categorization
Modern computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of multimedia content
Interactive multimedia applications
Ethical issues in video surveillance and Internet monitoring
Intelligent urban environment observation systems including safety monitoring and evacuation
Cybercrime – threats and counteracting
Law aspects in security research
Cryptography and data protection
Quantum cryptography
Object tracking and threat detection
Evaluation of security features in end-user applications
Experiments/lessons from recent deployments
Video processing through cloud computing
Multi-core parallel processing of audio & video
Intelligent searching of multimedia content
Biometric applications
Transcoding of video

The conference objectives are in conformance with the objectives of the FP7
Security Research (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/security/home_en.html).
During the conference, a presentation of the FP7 Security Research will
be shown. Objectives of the FP7 Security Research are as follows:

to develop technologies for building capabilities needed to ensure the security of citizens from threats (terrorism, natural disasters, crime), while respecting human privacy,
to ensure optimal use of technologies to the benefit of civil European security,
to stimulate the cooperation for civil security solutions,
to improve the competitiveness of the European security industry, and
to deliver mission-oriented research results to reduce security gaps.

Proceedings

MCSS’11 papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a book from the CCIS series book (http://www.springer.com/series/7899).

Special Issue Journal Publication: Extended versions of the best papers
of the conference will appear in Special Issue of the Springer’s
International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042