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Titolo : SMART – SCALABLE MEASURES FOR AUTOMATED RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGIES

SMART (Scalable Measures for Automated Recognition Technologies) is an EC funded project under the Seventh Framework Research Programme (http://www.smartsurveillance.eu). SMART project addresses the questions of automated decision taking with respect to the “smart surveillance” technologies in a society where privacy and data protection are fundamental rights. Smart surveillance may be understood as using technology to collect raw data via interlinked multisensory receptors (including video, audio, etc.) and their automated processing, assessment, analysis and (semi-) automated decision-making upon the gathered data. The risks and opportunities inherent to the use of smart surveillance will be evaluated and a number of technical, procedural and legal options for safeguards will be developed. SMART aims to create a toolkit which would inform system designers, policy makers and legislative bodies across Europe and beyond. SMART Objectives are: 1. Determine the state of the art and likely future trends of smart surveillance, its proportionality and impact on privacy in four key application areas. 2. Identify dependency and vulnerability of smart surveillance on underlying technology infrastructures (especially telecommunications networks) and explore system integrity and privacy issues therein. 3. Identify and explore smart surveillance and privacy issues in cyberspace. 4. Map out characteristics of laws governing surveillance and identify lacunae/new safeguards as well as best practices. 5. Map out characteristics of laws governing interoperability and data exchange and identify lacunae/new safeguards as well as best practices. 6. Explore the attitudes and beliefs of citizens towards smart surveillance. 7. Establish best-practice criteria developed on the basis of operational efficiency, established legal principles and citizen perceptions. 8. Develop a toolkit for policy-makers, police and security forces to implement and promote the best practice approach, including the development of system design guidelines and a model law balancing privacy and security concerns which would be capable of pan-European application. The SMART consortium has assembled a balanced study team of specialists of whom nearly 20% are former or serving police or intelligence officers with expertise in applied information & communications technology (ICT) as well as a number of different branches of the social sciences: consumer psychology; market research; marketing communications; sociology; economics; ICT law (especially data protection law, spam and cybercrime); consumer protection law; intellectual property & contract law; project management; impact evaluation assessment.

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