More and more these days new european security measures are affecting our lives and privacy. Since the new approval of Romania as a member in NATO and EU, authorities increased their control procedures and improved their tools used for that purpose, especially against activists. New technologies, legislations, techniques and doctrines were established in the middle of the judicial, police and military apparatuses. The forces of control are merging, while the fronts of struggle are multiplicated. Our goal is to find out the relations between these organizations that favorize this phenomenum and state practical reasons and on how we can protect ourselves and our privacy.
The meeting will have the following topics:
New european security arhitecture (actors, partners and their relations)
Border control (romania partner in frontex, shengen border controls etc)
Tools, methods and devices:

biometrics (new passports and id cards in romania and europe)
phone and internet control – how does that affect our privacy
other types of surveillance (street cameras, registration forms etc.)
crowd control on activist meetings and summit protests

Police behaviour versus activists:

denmark : police action over activist people (police brutality, abuse etc)
balkans – serbia : group of 6 (how police manufactures evidence?)
mediteranian sea : fortress europe (why people have to die to keep the borders of europe in control?)

Conclusions:

what can we do to protect our privacy (practical advices)
what can we do to prevent ourselves from the growing police state’s actions
how we can spread the word so more people be aware of what’s happening
open discussion with proposals from groups for the future etc.

The meeting will take place on 27 / 28 of february in Brasov. Further info will be provided about the exact location after your confirmation of arrival.We appreciate if you will post this on your / your friends blogs!
Contact info: notallowed@riseup.net

Notice: Due to the fact that we have no money support, people attending this meeting should be aware about covering their expenses
Info related to this meeting’s topics and used as a beggining point of our discussions you can find also here:

http://www.gipfelsoli.org

http://outofcontrol.noblogs.org

http://euro-police.noblogs.org

http://romania.indymedia.org

http://indimedia.dk

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