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Interception Capabilities 2000
Report to the Director General for Research of the European Parliament (Scientific and Technical Options Assessment programme office) on the development of surveillance technology and risk of abuse of economic information.
This study considers 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.
Report by : Duncan Campbell, IPTV Ltd
Edinburgh, Scotland: April, 1999
Contents Summary Report Recommendations Technical annexe Notes
Illustration: 30 metre antennae at the Composite Signals Organisation Station, Morwenstow, England,
intercepting communications from Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean regional satellites. (D Campbell)STOA Report Front Page and Publication Data
Scientific and Technological Assessment
STOADEVELOPMENT OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY AND RISK OF ABUSE OF ECONOMIC INFORMATION
(An appraisal of technologies for political control)
Part 4/4: 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
Working document for the STOA Panel
Luxemburg, April 1999 • PE 168.184/Part3/4
Directorate General for Research
Cataloguing data: Title: DEVELOPMENT OF SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY AND RISK OF ABUSE OF ECONOMIC INFORMATION (An appraisal of technologies for political control)
Part 4/4: 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
Publisher: European Parliament
Directorate General for Research
Directorate A
The STOA ProgrammeAuthor: Duncan Campbell - IPTV Ltd - Edinburgh Editor: Mr. Dick Holdsworth
Head of STOA UnitDate: April 1999 PE Number: PE 168.184 / Part 4/4
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Parliament. It is a working document of the Scientific and Technological Options
Assessment Panel of the European Parliament.
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