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22 <h3>Entries from May
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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
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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
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
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
52 fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of
53 the face and other information about the person. Some of the
54 information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same
55 system as currently used in the passports. The codes to decrypt will
56 be 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
60 <a href=
"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs">the
61 encryption is already broken
</a>. And they
62 <a href=
"http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guys-could-read-rfid-passports-at-217-feet--maybe-a-lot-more.html">can
63 be read from
70 meters away
</a>. This can be mitigated a bit by
64 keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
65 one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
66 ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
67 business getting access to that information.
</p>
69 <p>The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
70 and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
71 of privacy without any objections. So are the Norwegian passports,
72 but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
73 That option is going away with the passing of the new law. In this, I
74 envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
75 information is stored in their national ID.
</p>
77 <p>And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
78 information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
79 over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, "when
80 extradition is not considered disproportionate".
</p>
86 Tags:
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</a>,
<a href=
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<a href=
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95 <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>
101 <p>Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
102 to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
103 cost of around
20 million NOK (
2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a
104 year. I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look
105 like today. To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is
106 needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in
107 Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.
</p>
109 <p>The
2005 numbers are from
110 <a href=
"http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret">digi.no
</a>,
111 the
2012 numbers are from
112 <a href=
"http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet">a
113 NKOM report
</a>, and I got the
2013 numbers after asking NKOM via
114 email. I was told the numbers for
2014 will be presented May
20th,
115 and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very
116 different from the numbers from
2013.
</p>
118 <p>The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted
119 quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that
8 Kbit/s is
120 enough. See for example a
121 <a href=
"http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1">summary
122 on voice quality from Cisco
</a> for some alternatives.
8 Kbit/s is
60
123 Kbytes/min, and this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes
124 to get the storage requirements.
</p>
126 <p>Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
127 availability requirements etc. But a simple way to calculate can be
128 to use the price of a TiB-disk (around
1000 NOK /
120 EUR) and double
129 it to take space, power and redundancy into account. It could be much
130 higher with high speed and good redundancy requirements.
</p>
132 <p>But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone
133 calls in Norway? Not much. Here is a small table showing the
134 estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
135 and large organisations:
</p>
138 <tr><th>Year
</th><th>Call minutes
</th><th>Size
</th><th>Price in NOK / EUR
</th></tr>
139 <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>
140 <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>
141 <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>
144 <p>This is the cost of buying the storage. Maintenance need to be
145 taken into account too, but calculating that is left as an exercise
146 for the reader. But it is obvious to me from those numbers that
147 recording the sound of all phone calls in Norway is not going to be
148 stopped because it is too expensive. I wonder if someone already is
149 collecting the data?
</p>
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