The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
PDF 22 pages: 2010 Intelligence as Sap of European Union Spanish
Abstract: This article reflects the importance of the consolidation of structures of Intelligence, able of canalizing the flows in the support and exchange of information that provide the preventive measures to the decision making that serves like fortification of the UE. The Intelligence considered like the sap, the food of the Union, must be had present like part fundamental in the vanguard of any policy to develop.
PDF 10 pages chapter: 2004 Fuentes Abiertas Jose Maria Felipo I Sarda
Abstract: This article reflects the importance of the consolidation of structures of Intelligence, able of canalizing the flows in the support and exchange of information that provide the preventive measures to the decision making that serves like fortification of the UE. The Intelligence considered like the sap, the food of the Union, must be had present like part fundamental in the vanguard of any policy to develop.
PDF 1 page: 2008 Coopération européenne dans le renseignement, Axel Dyevre
Depuis quelques années, l’Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) a créé un fort engouement au sein des institutions européen – nes comme de beaucoup d’États membres. L’OSINT, c’est le renseignement sur sources ouvertes. C’est-à-dire la capacité pour un analyste de produire du renseignement, avec toute la valeur ajoutée induite à partir d’informations ne provenant pas de sources secrètes mais de sources non classifiées. L’imagerie satellite commerciale achetée pour le Centre satellitaire de Tojerron (EU SatCen) : OSINT ! Les divers systèmes de veille utilisés par la plupart des services pour faire de la recherche d’information sur Internet : OSINT ! Les multiples experts, d’origine académique ou non, s’exprimant sur leur sphère d’intérêt de manière publique ou pouvant être interviewés : OSINT encore ! Avec l’explosion des nouvelles
PDF 27 pages: 2008 Fleisher on OSINT English and Spanish
Abstract: The development of open sources as a viable source of inputs for intelligence efforts has been gaining in popularity. Both national intelligence agencies and business/commercial organizations have been ramping up their open source intelligence (OSINT) efforts, attempting to add even greater value to the overall intelligence endeavor through its utilization. This progress has occurred while both intelligence practitioners and their organizations wrestle with the challenges that arise from gathering and fusing the information flowing from this channel with flows coming from better established means.
This paper will focus principally on the challenges and opportunities that OSINT entails for the business/competitive intelligence (B/CI) analyst and consider its impact on the analysis process itself. Using research gathered from studies of scores of global enterprises, it will describe the current state of the art in analysis efforts of OSINT in business/commercial enterprises, examine the planning and execution challenges organizations are experiencing associated with effectively using and fusing OSINT, and provide guidelines associated with the successful use of OSINT within a number of leading private sector enterprises.
Court Of Human Rights: Convictions For File-Sharing Violate Human Rights
Civil Liberties: The European Court of Human Rights has declared that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with fundamental Human Rights, as defined in the European Union and elsewhere. This means that as of today, nobody sharing culture in the EU may be convicted just for breaking the copyright monopoly law; the bar for convicting was raised considerably. This can be expected to have far-reaching implications, not just judicially, but in confirming that the copyright monopoly stands at odds with human rights.
The European Court of Human Rights in Luxembourg is no dismissible small player. It is the court that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which is part of the Constitution of the European Union and of most (if not all) European states. When this court makes a decision, that decision gets constitutional status in all of Europe (except for Belarus, which is not a signatory).
Therefore, the copyright monopoly as such – which is ordinary law in European states – was just defined as taking a back seat to the constitutional right to share and seek culture and knowledge, as defined in the European Convention on Human Rights, article 10:
“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.” (ECHR 10)
We have long claimed that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with civil liberties (one of my most well-known keynotes, Copyright regime vs. civil liberties, even highlights this in the title). While the judiciary is slow to react to new phenomena, and issues like this percolate very slowly to the top courts where verdicts make a reak difference, I’m very happy to see that the issue did indeed get to the relevant court at last, and that the Court made the only reasonable decision.
