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22 <h3>Entries from May 2015.</h3>
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26 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html">Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police</a>
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29 10th May 2015
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32 <p>5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all
33 citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something
34 criminal or not, are
35 <a href="https://www.holderdeord.no/votes/1430838871e">required to
36 give fingerprints to the police</a> (vote details from Holder de
37 ord). The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few
38 years there will be no option any more. The ID will be required to
39 vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the
40 post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license
41 and many other tasks required to function in Norway. The banks plan
42 to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new
43 national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to
44 change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards.
45 In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will
46 be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to
47 the police.</p>
48
49 <p>In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which
50 promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in
51 time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the finger
52 print will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of the
53 face and other information about the person. Some of the information
54 will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same system as
55 currently used in the passports. The codes to decrypt will be
56 available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
57 the globe, but for those that do now know anyone in those circles it
58 is good to know that
59 <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs">the
60 encryption is already broken</a>. And they
61 <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guys-could-read-rfid-passports-at-217-feet--maybe-a-lot-more.html">can
62 be read from 70 meters away</a>. This can be mitigated a bit by
63 keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
64 one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
65 ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
66 business getting access to that information.</p>
67
68 <p>The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
69 and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
70 of privacy without any objections. So are the Norwegian passports,
71 but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
72 That option is going away with the passing of the new law. In this, I
73 envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
74 information is stored in their national ID.</p>
75
76 <p>And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
77 information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
78 over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, "when
79 extradition is not considered disproportionate".</p>
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85 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
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94 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html">What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?</a>
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97 1st May 2015
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100 <p>Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
101 to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
102 cost of around 20 million NOK (2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a
103 year. I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look
104 like today. To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is
105 needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in
106 Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.</p>
107
108 <p>The 2005 numbers are from
109 <a href="http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret">digi.no</a>,
110 the 2012 numbers are from
111 <a href="http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet">a
112 NKOM report</a>, and I got the 2013 numbers after asking NKOM via
113 email. I was told the numbers for 2014 will be presented May 20th,
114 and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very
115 different from the numbers from 2013.</p>
116
117 <p>The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted
118 quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that 8 Kbit/s is
119 enough. See for example a
120 <a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1">summary
121 on voice quality from Cisco</a> for some alternatives. 8 Kbit/s is 60
122 Kbytes/min, and this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes
123 to get the storage requirements.</p>
124
125 <p>Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
126 availability requirements etc. But a simple way to calculate can be
127 to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK / 120 EUR) and double
128 it to take space, power and redundancy into account. It could be much
129 higher with high speed and good redundancy requirements.</p>
130
131 <p>But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone
132 calls in Norway? Not much. Here is a small table showing the
133 estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
134 and large organisations:</p>
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137 <tr><th>Year</th><th>Call minutes</th><th>Size</th><th>Price in NOK / EUR</th></tr>
138 <tr><td>2005</td><td align="right">24 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.3 PiB</td><td align="right">3 mill / 358 000</td></tr>
139 <tr><td>2012</td><td align="right">18 000 000 000</td><td align="right">1.0 PiB</td><td align="right">2.2 mill / 262 000</td></tr>
140 <tr><td>2013</td><td align="right">17 000 000 000</td><td align="right">950 TiB</td><td align="right">2.1 mill / 250 000</td></tr>
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142
143 <p>This is the cost of buying the storage. Maintenance need to be
144 taken into account too, but calculating that is left as an exercise
145 for the reader. But it is obvious to me from those numbers that
146 recording the sound of all phone calls in Norway is not going to be
147 stopped because it is too expensive. I wonder if someone already is
148 collecting the data?</p>
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166 <h2>Archive</h2>
167 <ul>
168
169 <li>2015
170 <ul>
171
172 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/01/">January (7)</a></li>
173
174 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/02/">February (6)</a></li>
175
176 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/03/">March (1)</a></li>
177
178 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/04/">April (4)</a></li>
179
180 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2015/05/">May (2)</a></li>
181
182 </ul></li>
183
184 <li>2014
185 <ul>
186
187 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/01/">January (2)</a></li>
188
189 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/02/">February (3)</a></li>
190
191 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/03/">March (8)</a></li>
192
193 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/04/">April (7)</a></li>
194
195 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/05/">May (1)</a></li>
196
197 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/06/">June (2)</a></li>
198
199 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/07/">July (2)</a></li>
200
201 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/08/">August (2)</a></li>
202
203 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/09/">September (5)</a></li>
204
205 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/10/">October (6)</a></li>
206
207 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/11/">November (3)</a></li>
208
209 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/12/">December (5)</a></li>
210
211 </ul></li>
212
213 <li>2013
214 <ul>
215
216 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
217
218 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
219
220 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
221
222 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
223
224 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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226 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
227
228 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
229
230 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
231
232 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
233
234 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (7)</a></li>
235
236 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/11/">November (9)</a></li>
237
238 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/12/">December (3)</a></li>
239
240 </ul></li>
241
242 <li>2012
243 <ul>
244
245 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
246
247 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
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249 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
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251 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
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253 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
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255 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
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257 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
258
259 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
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261 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
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263 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
264
265 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
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267 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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270
271 <li>2011
272 <ul>
273
274 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
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276 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
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278 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
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282 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
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288 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
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290 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
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292 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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294 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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296 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
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298 </ul></li>
299
300 <li>2010
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302
303 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
304
305 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
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307 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
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309 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
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311 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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313 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
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315 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
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317 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
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319 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
320
321 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
322
323 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
324
325 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
326
327 </ul></li>
328
329 <li>2009
330 <ul>
331
332 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
333
334 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
335
336 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
337
338 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
339
340 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
341
342 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
343
344 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
345
346 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
347
348 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
349
350 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
351
352 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
353
354 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
355
356 </ul></li>
357
358 <li>2008
359 <ul>
360
361 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
362
363 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
364
365 </ul></li>
366
367 </ul>
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