Law Enforcement Online

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Law Enforcement Online (LEO) is an Internet-based information system developed by Leidos (formerly Science Applications International Corporation, SAIC ) for US authorities tasked with fighting crime , jurisdiction , counter-terrorism and intelligence activities, as well as for rapid intervention forces. The communication system is available worldwide. It is only approved for sensitive but not for secret data ( sensitive but unclassified, SBU ~ only for official use). The system has been under the control of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division (FBI CJIS) since it was activated in July 1995 . EUROPOL has been operating the Secure Information Exchange Network Application (SIENA) for similar tasks since 2009, but on a European level.

assignment

The FBI mandate was given by the United States Department of Justice as follows:

  1. The United States Intelligence Community to continuously inform (USIC)
  2. Reduction of gang-like crime
  3. Protect victims from abuse and exploitation
  4. Protecting American Citizens from Financial Instrument Fraud or Health-Related Plot Fraud.

Users

In addition to police organizations in the United States, as well as organizations from the USIC and the armed forces and embassies, non-American organizations can also use LEO. For example, the INTERPOL Washington office is integrated into the network and INTERPOL databases can be accessed 24/7 through a gateway to the Interpol Global Communication System . No information is available about the reverse route.

Scope of services

With a LEO provides password on any Internet-enabled terminal access to:

In addition to this data access, LEO offers the following services:

  • Alert system for current threats.
  • Connection to several hundred groups with special interest groups and thus to experts on these topics.
  • VCC - Virtual Command Center, a tool for coordinating emergency services from an end device.

Project in numbers

According to information published by the American federal government, the number of participants has increased from 23 to 58,000 worldwide in more than 20,000 individual organizations since 1995. The number of virtual command centers (VCC) has increased from 111 in 2007 to 1326. The number of recorded cases rose from 153 to over 3000.

In 2004 information distributed on LEO leaked to the press, although it remained unclear whether the indiscretions were deliberate in order to achieve political goals.

LEO and civil liberties

Organizations around the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) criticize LEO as part of a newly formed surveillance system consisting of fusion centers and free access to information for police organizations. Together with the integration of the RISS networks and the information available there, LEO should make the backbone of information collection for the RISS networks. From the accumulation of power, civil rights activists derive dangers for civil liberties, the temptation to introduce a "thought police" and to use the systems not only against terrorist and criminal activities, but against political opponents or unpleasant people.

The threat to civil rights is also taken seriously by Congress . These considerations can be found in a hearing before the House of Representatives of the United States on March 18, 2009. However, LEO is named as one of several communication networks that are now largely integrated into LEO.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e FBI website introducing Law Enforcement Online ; Retrieved March 4, 2004.
  2. ↑ Training overview ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for a topic-related training course, accessed on March 4, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / trncal.kletc.net
  3. ↑ a b c d Description of the investment for the Law Enforcement Online Network Online ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the reference date August 30, 2013; accessed on March 4, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / itdashboard.gov
  4. ^ Information from the Department of Justice, Online ; accessed on March 4, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b c Law Enforcement Online (LEO) ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , SAIC's LEO provides a communications mechanism to link all levels of law enforcement in all parts of the United States ; Product description on the website of the manufacturer of LEO, accessed on October 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leidos.com
  6. ↑ Florian Rötzer; Beware of people with large, heavy jackets on Telepolis on May 21, 2004 on warm days ; accessed on September 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b c Michelle J. Kinnucan (2003) Big Brother Gets Bigger: Domestic Spying & the Global Intelligence Working Group ; First published in the July-August 2003 issue of Agenda, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Online .
  8. ↑ a b c Hearing before the Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information, Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment of the Committee on Homeland Security House of Representatives of the 111th Congress in the first session, March 18, 2009; On-line