Ekesis tips a story up at NewScientist about the ontogeny of a new surveillance system by German social contraception mass Siemens. The system is notable for its integration of many diverse types of automated data-gathering. It can scan "telephone calls, email and notice superhighway activity, bank transactions and guaranty records." It uses tolerant




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document.write(" pattern-recognition os to pick out unusual activities and noteworthy pieces of data. So far, the system has been sold to 60 countries. "According to a report obtained by New Scientist, the system integrates tasks habitually done by discrete surveillance teams or machines... This ms-dos is trained on a large number of sample dossier to pick out items such as names, phone numbers and places from generic text. This means it can spot names or numbers that crop up close by anyone already of interest to the authorities, and then catalogue any experiments that contain such associates."

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