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15 Jan 2008
Police in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have announced plans for a database of international criminals that can be shared between countries.
The new International Information Consortium, dubbed Server in the Sky, will include finger and retina prints, criminal records and known addresses of suspects.
"Server in the Sky is an FBI initiative designed to foster the advanced search and exchange of biometric information on a global scale," the FBI told The Guardian.
"While it is currently in the concept and design stages, it will eventually provide a technical forum for member nations to submit biometric search requests to other nations.
"It will maintain a core holding of the world's 'worst of the worst' individuals. Any identifications of these people will be sent as a priority message to the requesting nation."
The UK government and the Metropolitan Police told The Guardian that they are aware of the programme, but declined further comment.
The five countries already co-operate in running Echelon, the global eavesdropping service that can listen into telephone, radio and email communication.
Echelon was designed during the Cold War but has maintained and expanded its operations since the break up of the Soviet Union.
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first names on the list
Criminals on a database? (its been going on for centuries) Surely then murderers and liars should be top of the list? For instance Bush senior, Bush junior, Blair, Clinton, Hitler , Curchill , Thatcher, Reagan and all the other puppet 'world leaders' that have been put in power by the illuminati brotherhood shouls ALL be on the database as serious criminals. Or is it just for those that have stolen a mars bar out of woolworths? Wake Up.
Posted by: E M Delooze 18 Jan 2008
Technology not an issue
It doesn't matter if the database is literally in the sky in sat or drone form or if it is on land. The technology and connectivity have been around for some time. What is an issue is the legalities. The individual countries have to first establish the right to have access to the data pertaining to their own criminals, next an acceptable data retention period has to be enabled through law, next all involved nations have to implement sharing protocol and law and then they need to address information pertaining to criminals not from any of those countries but entering or passing through. None of this addresses how these individuals may be aprehended in any of these nations and the handover procedures. Big project by big brother which needs to be monitored by little brother (:
Posted by: peter 17 Jan 2008