Mr President, Echelon is a source of concern for the people of Europe, not only because it may have been used for unlawful purposes, but, above all, because of the risks inherent in its very nature, for it is an automatic, general, indiscriminate interception system, about the existence of which we can be in no doubt.
But is the deployment of such all-encompassing and apparently indiscriminate surveillance systems itself lawful?
The cluster munitions are not the only indiscriminate heavy weapon system to imperil the city.
Among the most common etiologic factors, are: poor oral hygiene; poorly fitted dentures; weakened immune system; indiscriminate use of antibiotics; and proliferation of Candida spp. [ 4].
In contrast to PrrC and RloC, the HEPN domain proteins RNase LS and LsoA, which also constitute distinct anti-phage T4 defense systems, are indiscriminate mRNases that cleave both free and ribosome-associated transcripts [ 49, 94].
The immediate aim, to support the system, suggests an indiscriminate bail-out.
Yelü continued to serve under Ögödei, who became grand khan in 1229, and persuaded him to establish a formal bureaucracy and to replace indiscriminate levies with a rationalized taxation system along Chinese lines.
Overall, our results suggest that the indiscriminate use of a nonvalidated scoring system might lead to considerable differences in the number of subjects to prevent, with a likely under- or overuse of the limited available preventive resources.
The mass surveillance systems of today, systems that pre-emptively automate the indiscriminate seizure of private records, constitute a sort of surveillance time-machine – a machine that simply cannot operate without violating our liberty on the broadest scale.
But the color-coded system is too broad, too indiscriminate; there is a reason it is so easy to ridicule.
