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List of government mass surveillance projects

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List of government mass surveillance projects
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This is a list of government surveillance projects and related databases throughout the world.

International

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Snapshot of Boundless Informant's global map of data collection

European Union

Former

  • Data Retention Directive: A defunct directive requiring EU member states to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months and allowing police and security agencies to request access from a court to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call, and text message sent or received.
  • INDECT: Was a research project (until 2014) funded by the European Union to develop surveillance methods (e.g. processing of CCTV camera data streams) for the monitoring of abnormal behaviours in an urban environment.[1]

Current (as per 2024)

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National

Australia

  • In August 2014 it was reported[2] that law-enforcement agencies had been accessing Australians' web browsing histories via internet providers such as Telstra without a warrant.
  • It was reported[3] that Australia had issued 75% more wiretap warrants in 2003 than the US did and this was 26 times greater than the US on a per capita basis.

China

France

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DGSE base near Domme in southwestern France

Germany

India

Russia

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    Gratitude of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Volkhov region of the organization Perspective Scientific Research Development for the creation of the "CAMERTON" system.
    SORM: A technical system used by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation to monitor internet and telephone communication.
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    Certificate of state registration of the "monitoring, control, tracking the target of ground vehicles" - "СAMERTON".
    СAMERTON: Is a global vehicle tracking system, control and tracking, identification of probable routes and places of the most frequent appearance of a particular vehicle, integrated with a distributed network of radar complexes of photo-video fixation and road surveillance camera.[16] Developed and implemented by the "Advanced Scientific - Research Projects" enterprise St. Petersburg.[17] Within the framework of the practical use of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, it has made it possible to identify and solve grave and especially grave crimes, the system is also operated by other state services and departments;
  • Yarovaya Law is a piece of anti-terrorist legislation that includes a requirement to store all phone call and text messaging data, as well as providing cryptographic backdoors for security services.

Sweden

Switzerland

United Kingdom

United States

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A top secret document leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian in 2013, originally due to be declassified on 12 April 2038.
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Unclear origin

Recently discontinued

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References

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