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EU: The "Clean IT" project for communications surveillance

21 September 2012

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EU: Police to 'patrol' Facebook and Twitter for terrorists under EU plan - Police across Europe will "patrol" Facebook, Google and Twitter for postings supporting terrorism under an EU project detailed in a leaked report (Daily Telegraph, link)

EU: EDRI: Clean IT – Leak shows plans for large-scale, undemocratic surveillance of all communications (link): "A leaked document from the CleanIT project shows just how far internal discussions in that initiative have drifted away from its publicly stated aims, as well as the most fundamental legal rules that underpin European democracy and the rule of law." See: Clean IT Project: Full-text (23 pages, pdf)

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