AUT: STOA: Report on Political Control URL (fwd)

["Harry M. Cleaver" <hmcleave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 01:04:03 -0800 (PST)
From: John Shafer <wy430@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: sovernet-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: STOA: Report on Political Control URL

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             Europeans Reveal Technologies of Political Control
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   Originally posted in IGC member conference: [12]labr.global
   Date: February 5, 1998
   Posted by: jagdish@xxxxxxx
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/* Written 5:18 PM  Feb  5, 1998 by jagdish@xxxxxxx in labr.global */
/* ---------- "Technologies for Political Control" ---------- */

/* ---------- "An Appraisal of Technologis of Poli" ---------- */
You may want to download and read following report. As it says in this
forwarded message  it does provide a grip assessment of what new technologi=
es
are capable of doing, specially enhancing power for political control.

Jagdish Parikh
Human Rights Watch

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From: John Young <jya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: cryptography@xxxxxx
Subject: STOA Assessment of Techno-Control

We've  transcribed the Euro-Parliament Scientific and Technological Options
Assessment (STOA) report (Luxembourg), "An Appraisal of the Technologies of
Political Control," 6 January 1998, a portion of which was offered earlier
by Axel Horns and Ulf M=F6ller.

http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm  (295K text + 210K images)

Zipped version: http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.zip  (314K)

It's a grim assessment, revealing more than most of us want to face about
the dark side of high technology, especially what the most technologically
advanced nations are deploying, and building to sell to the worst of
humanity, and how export laws are flaunted to cut criminal deals in defianc=
e
of high-minded law and public policy.

It demonstrates that he national security heritage continues, sharing
military technology with governmental outlaws around the globe.

And the US is leading the market.

It would be cathartic for this report was widely read, pondered, then acted
upon, in the US and globally. Kudos to the European Parliament for
sponsoring it. And congratulations to the authors and the beleaguered
organizations who've been trying for years to diminish this over civilized
madness, to jolt us out of techno-narcosis.

There's much in the report that's been discussed here, and much more that
has not but deserves to be.

The full report is 112 pages, 50 pages of main body, 13 pages of notes and
25 pages of bibliography. We've not yet transcribed the detailed
bibliography.. As noted earlier, the contents are:

Abstract Executive Summary Acknowledgements Tables and Charts

1  Introduction
2  Role and Function of Political Control Technologies 3  Recent Trends and
Innovations 4  Developments in Surveillance Technology 5  Innovations in Cr=
owd
Control Weapons 6  New Prison Control Systems 7  Interrogation, Torture
Techniques and Technologies             8  Regulation of Horizontal
Proliferation 9  Conclusions 10 Notes and References 11 Bibliography [Not y=
et
transcribed] Appendix 1. Military, Security & Police Fairs. [Not provided w=
ith
report]

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