Mass Surveillance - Part 1: Risks and opportunities raised by the current generation of network services and applications
This document identifies the risks of data breaches for users of publicly available Internet services such as email, social networks and cloud computing, and the possible impacts for them and the European Information Society. It presents the latest technology advances allowing the analysis of user data and their meta-data on a mass scale for surveillance reasons. It identifies technological and organisational measures and the key stakeholders for reducing the risks identified. Finally the study proposes possible policy options, in support of the risk reduction measures identified by the study.
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Annex 1
Annex 2
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Company: TECNALIA Research and Investigation Authors: Arkaitz Gamino Garcia Concepción Cortes Velasco Eider Iturbe Zamalloa Erkuden Rios Velasco Iñaki Eguía Elejabarrieta Javier Herrera Lotero Jason Mansell (Linguistic Review) José Javier Larrañeta Ibañez Stefan Schuster (Editor)
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Policy area
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- area of freedom, security and justice
- communications
- computer crime
- cryptography
- data protection
- defence
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- electronic mail
- espionage
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- impact of information technology
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- Internet
- LAW
- malware
- personal data
- protection of communications
- rights and freedoms