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Ritchey, David (David Benjamin. "George Washington's Development as an Espionage Chief." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1993. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500803/.
Full textLe, Voguer Gildas. "Secret et démocratie dans l'Amérique de l'après-guerre : le contrôle parlementaire de l'activité des services de renseignement, 1947-1987." Orléans, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1995ORLE1012.
Full textDe, Witte Parra Mona. "La protection du renseignement britannique, américain et allemand pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale." Thesis, Reims, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REIML004.
Full textThis thesis investigates the protection of British intelligence sources during World War Two, and includes a comparison with American and German practices. In these three countries, intelligence officers adopted very different approaches to preserve these sources and to ensure that the latter could be used in the long term. Each country had a different perception of the balance between the immediate use of intelligence and the protection of its sources, between the short-term benefits and long-term preservation of these assets in the context of the war. Drawing on a vast amount of archival material, both civilian and military, this research presents these three countries’ various approaches and uses this analysis to reflect on their concrete achievements. This study interrogates the preconceived ideas about these countries’ intelligence practices, in particular the reputation of secrecy of the British agencies, as opposed to the lack of discretion of their American counterparts. Moreover, this thesis emphasises the particular situation of German secret services in a very divided country.The ambiguous cooperation between Britain and the United States during the Second World War helped pave the way for their « special relationship ». During the war, the balance of power between the two nations shifted dramatically, in the intelligence field as in many others. Moreover, the analysis of the exchanges between the British intelligence officers and their French and Soviet colleagues opens new research avenues in the study of their international relations and on these complex and fluctuating alliances
Couderc, Agathe. "Sous le sceau du secret : les coopérations internationales des Chiffres britannique et français, militaires et navals pendant la Première Guerre mondiale." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2022. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2022SORUL060.pdf.
Full textAt the end of the 19th century, thanks to the evolution of telecommunications, military and naval circles rediscover cryptology, also known as “science of secret writing”, and become more and more interested by it. Its quick development in wartime can be depicted by the creation or expansion of several units, called “Cipher services”, in France and in the United Kingdom. These services have two missions: protecting the national and allied communications, and attacking the secret codes of the enemy. Their growth during the First World War illustrates the emergence of a brand new branch of intelligence and its reflection in counter-espionage: signals intelligence, or SIGINT. A comparison between the French and British Cipher services within their armed forces shows that there were similarities in the establishment of these services, particularly in recruiting personnel whom were subject to secrecy, although the temporalities of certain missions differed. Within the Entente Cordiale, a secret, joint and allied cooperation was established between the various French and British signals intelligence services. This alliance included the creation of shared codes, as well as the sharing of information resulting from the interception and decrypting of enemy communications. It thus highlights the importance of cryptology for the Franco-British alliance in the fight against the Central Empires, which can also be observed in their other alliances, such as the one with the Americans. It also sheds light on the extent to which this intelligence specialty took on in the conduct of the war, which explains the shape taken by the French and British Ciphers after the war
Blistène, Pauline. "Voir et faire voir le secret de l'État : fonctions et enjeux de la fiction d’espionnage contemporaine." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H219.
Full textWhat is the political, moral and philosophical value of “spy fiction”? This dissertation examines this question using an innovative methodology that combines an analysis of contemporary television series (Homeland, Le Bureau des Légendes) and interviews with intelligence practitioners (CIA, DGSE) along with entertainment professionals (showrunners, screenwriters). My thesis is that there is a change in the ontological and epistemic status of spy films and TV series due to the involvement of real spies in their creation. The political and philosophical importance of spy fiction manifests itself in the impact of spy fiction on the political and social reality: the “realism” of spy fiction that I define here departs from common conceptions of correspondence to reality and replaces it with an approach that locates agency at the heart of the analysis. This approach does not stipulate the blurring of fact and fiction, but instead reaffirms its importance as a hypothesis for the production and reception of cultural artifacts. In a context where the demand for information concerning clandestine activities of the state keeps growing, the interactions between intelligence and entertainment professionals allow the former to stage their own disclosure without revealing their real activities. Far from contributing to the abolition of the frontier of secrecy, such practices contribute to its displacement, thus allowing a renewal of secrecy under the appearance of transparency. State secrets are never revealed but only signified
Guillaumin, Béatrice. "L'appareil français de renseignement : une administration ordinaire aux attributs extraordinaires." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 1, 2021. https://ecm.univ-paris1.fr/nuxeo/site/esupversions/87fa596a-79d4-4f38-89d4-aca7a78356b9.
Full textSince the end of the 2000s, the integration of the intelligence apparatus into the French administrative and institutional landscape has been indisputable: legal framework for its activities, redefinition of the link maintained with the executive branch, plural control to which it is now subject, etc. While this normalisation should be verified, it will be more essential to assess its scope. At the threshold of the study, a bundle of clues can be released to corroborate the process of a substantial normalisation of the intelligence apparatus. However, it cannot disappear and merge entirely into the administrative matrix. In this hypothesis, while the normalisation process intends to erase the originalities of the intelligence apparatus, it actually generates a paradoxical movement: new originalities have been added. Thus considered, the alignment of the intelligence apparatus on the administrative model remains limited by a certain number of elements which shape an administration with a singular appearance, oscillating between normality and originality. To be convinced of this, the aim is to emphasise that the normalisation of the intelligence apparatus takes place by the conjunction of two movements in perfect synchronization. The first relates to the legal framework of the intelligence apparatus which constitutes the apanage of this normalisation. The second is triggered by the tightening of control over the intelligence apparatus, the mechanism of which appears to be the markers of this normalisation
Davies, Philip H. J. "Organisational development of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1979." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363245.
Full textRamondy, Karine. "1958-1961 : l'assassinat des leaders africains, un "moment" de construction nationale et de régulation des relations internationales (étude comparée en Afrique centrale)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H006.
Full textThrough a close examination of the trajectory of four African leaders, Barthélémy Boganda (Republic of Central Africa), Patrice Lumumba (Republic of Congo), Félix Moumié et Ruben Um Nyobé (Cameroun), during the independence era, and by means of the historical anthropology, the comparative method and focusing on Central Africa, this study tries to explore to what extent political assassination could constitute a way of regulating international relationships and lay the foundations of the national construction of their country of origins. Along their political career path, their UN-related and Pan–Africanism disillusionment that tightens around them the lethal noose of a Realpolitik caught between bipolarization and neo-colonialism will be referred to. The other hypothesis developed here is as followed : it could be possible through comparative history to bring out invariance within political assassination under the forms of recurrent processes such as the judiciary weapon, the media weapon, the lack of a decent burial place and the damnatio memoriae they’ve been sentenced to which all contrastingly led to a symbolic and iconic reversal. The study relies on numerous sources that complete each other in order to reconstitute the chain of events and allow new interpretations: private exclusive archives, public archives, some of which having been declassified for this purpose, audio-visual and printed sources, exclusive oral narratives collected by the author
Genêt, Stéphane. "Renseignement militaire et actions secrètes de la guerre de succession d’Autriche au traité de Paris (1740-1763)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040174.
Full textThis work tackles the question of the military intelligence from the war of Austrian succession (1740) to the treaty of Paris (1763). The military intelligence is initially replaced in the strategic thinking of the period which evokes it little while paradoxically highlighting its importance for the armies. The various sources of military information are the second part. The army Spy, unrecognized figure of the period, plays a daily role within the armies of the Ancien Regime. Located at the margins of society and the military sphere, attracted by profit but also by the sense of adventure, social recognition or induced by a nascent patriotism, the spy takes risks to satisfy a sleeping partner. The third part focuses on the military secret, hard to preserve and unveiled in logic of networks, at different scales and in a more or less complex organizations. The spy takes part of a personal relationship with a supervisor whom he is the "client." The study examines in a final time the transmission and protection of information obtained. The risks are varied (postal interception but especially enemy spies). The conclusion raises the question of the effectiveness of the military information, not very decisive because of the logistic constraints and widespread distrust about information and the actors who collect them. In a period of structuring of the army and centralization of political power, military intelligence is in contrary a decentralized operation. The need for reliable information leads to a militarization of civilians, transforming them into auxiliary information
Genêt, Stéphane. "Renseignement militaire et actions secrètes de la guerre de succession d’Autriche au traité de Paris (1740-1763)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 4, 2010. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2010PA040174.pdf.
Full textThis work tackles the question of the military intelligence from the war of Austrian succession (1740) to the treaty of Paris (1763). The military intelligence is initially replaced in the strategic thinking of the period which evokes it little while paradoxically highlighting its importance for the armies. The various sources of military information are the second part. The army Spy, unrecognized figure of the period, plays a daily role within the armies of the Ancien Regime. Located at the margins of society and the military sphere, attracted by profit but also by the sense of adventure, social recognition or induced by a nascent patriotism, the spy takes risks to satisfy a sleeping partner. The third part focuses on the military secret, hard to preserve and unveiled in logic of networks, at different scales and in a more or less complex organizations. The spy takes part of a personal relationship with a supervisor whom he is the "client." The study examines in a final time the transmission and protection of information obtained. The risks are varied (postal interception but especially enemy spies). The conclusion raises the question of the effectiveness of the military information, not very decisive because of the logistic constraints and widespread distrust about information and the actors who collect them. In a period of structuring of the army and centralization of political power, military intelligence is in contrary a decentralized operation. The need for reliable information leads to a militarization of civilians, transforming them into auxiliary information
Pollack, Guillaume. "A travers les frontières : la résistance des réseaux (1940-1945)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H045.
Full textThis thesis is the first global study about French Resistance networks during the Second World War (1940-1945). We ask several questions. How did these organisations break out political borders built in Europe by the Nazis after their victory in France in May-June 1940 ? How did these networks construct communications beyond these borders (by air, earth and sea) with the Allied secret services in only four years ? Finally, through the study of fighting experience, the role distribution in these networks and the question of repression, we also wonder : how did the clandestine war disrupt gender relations between men and women fighting against the Nazis ?
Jakub, Joseph F. "Spies and saboteurs : Anglo-American collaboration and rivalry in human intelligence collection and special operations, 1940-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670255.
Full textJenkins, Danny R. "Winning trench warfare battlefield intelligence in the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/NQ57601.pdf.
Full textMIRANDA, SANDRA MARA SANTA BARBA. "IS SECRECY STILL THE SOUL OF BUSINESS?: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICES' HOME PAGES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9569@1.
Full textOs serviços nacionais de inteligência são instituições que, tradicionalmente, têm se fechado ao escrutínio público e cujas atividades são cercadas por certo mistério. Este trabalho investiga a página inicial (home page) na internet de três serviços nacionais de inteligência: o turco, o italiano e o australiano. A análise das páginas discute o discurso institucional dos serviços em duas esferas: a verbal e a visual. A análise verbal focaliza a declaração de missão/lema dessas instituições e a análise visual contempla as imagens e o layout das páginas como um todo. Como suporte teórico para a análise verbal, utiliza-se a gramática funcional de Halliday (1994). Já a análise visual se fundamenta na teoria da multimodalidade de Kress e van Leeuwen (1996). O estudo sugere que, embora a presença dos serviços nacionais de inteligência na internet possa parecer, à primeira vista, uma mudança de postura de relacionamento para com o público em geral, muito pouco é dito acerca de princípios, objetivos específicos ou métodos de atuação pelos quais se pautam essas instituições.
National intelligence services are institutions which have traditionally avoided public scrutiny and whose activities have been clothed in some mistery. This study investigates the home page of three national intelligence services: the Turkish, the Italian and the Australian. The analysis examines two aspects of the institutional discourse of the services: the verbal and the visual. The verbal analysis centers on the institutional mission statement/motto and the visual analysis focuses on images and layout of the pages as a whole. The verbal analysis is based on Halliday's functional grammar (1994) and critical discourse analysis. The verbal analysis draws on Kress and van Leeuwen's theory of multimodality (1996). The results suggest that, although the presence of national intelligence services on the internet may seem to be a step forward toward a more transparent relationship with the general public, very little is actually said about specific principles, objectives and modus operandi these institutions guide themselves.
Ornelas, Garcia Netzahualcoyotl. "Modèle Informationnel pour une session User-Centric : Inférence et Intégration Intelligente." Paris 13, 2011. http://scbd-sto.univ-paris13.fr/secure/edgalilee_th_2011_ornelas_garcia.pdf.
Full textNowadays users present a nomad behavior and do not want to experience technical barriers when accessing their services. The user wants to obtain the best choice to access his services and to services offered by operators based by user location or activity. This thesis proposes solutions for the user session management. The contributions of the thesis are : [1] INFERENCE KNOWLEDGE BASE: We propose a knowledge base independent of applications. This represents the real world and the relevant events into a NGN context. These events are produced by the mobility (user, device, network, service, session], and the change of behavior in a component [Q05] or by the activity change of the user. [2] Informational Structure “ Real Time Profile” : we propose an information structure based on a service architecture [SOA], which takes into account four visibility levels [user, device, network, service]. The service model and Q0S model is applied to manage all resources. This structure allows having a real image (of the System) when a user accesses a service [Real Time Profile]. [3] Organizational model based on a informational partition to manage the users session “VPIN”. We propose a VPIN (Virtual Private Information Network] based on an information model. The VPIN acts as a knowledge base for a user session. It enables the self-management of all the components in ambient networks. In that way, user-session will have the adequate information of all ‘die visibility levels (user, terminal, network service] to ensure the session continuity without a break of connectivity. The rules proposed describe the organizational model
Luce, Alexandra Isabella. "British intelligence in the Portuguese world, 1939-1945 : operations against German Intelligence and relations with the Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado (PVDE)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608984.
Full textEssaidi, Moez. "Model-Driven Data Warehouse and its Automation Using Machine Learning Techniques." Paris 13, 2013. http://scbd-sto.univ-paris13.fr/secure/edgalilee_th_2013_essaidi.pdf.
Full textThis thesis aims at proposing an end-to-end approach which allows the automation of the process of model transformations for the development of data warehousing components. The main idea is to reduce as much as possible the intervention of human experts by using once again the traces of transformations produced on similar projects. The goal is to use supervised learning techniques to handle concept definitions with the same expressive level as manipulated data. The nature of the manipulated data leads us to choose relational languages for the description of examples and hypothesises. These languages have the advantage of being expressive by giving the possibility to express relationships between the manipulated objects, but they have the major disadvantage of not having algorithms allowing the application on large scales of industrial applications. To solve this problem, we have proposed an architecture that allows the perfect exploitation of the knowledge obtained from transformations' invariants between models and metamodels. This way of proceeding has highlighted the dependencies between the concepts to learn and has led us to propose a learning paradigm, called dependent-concept learning. Finally, this thesis presents various aspects that may inuence the next generation of data warehousing platforms. The latter suggests, in particular, an architecture for business intelligence-as-a-service based on the most recent and promising industrial standards and technologies
Gonçalves, Joanisval Brito. "Sed quis custodiet ipso custodes? : O controle da atividade de inteligência em regimes democráticos : os casos de Brasil e Canadá." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2008. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/1262.
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O presente trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo do controle da atividade de inteligência em regimes democráticos, com ênfase no controle externo exercido pelo Poder Legislativo. A primeira parte da Tese dedica-se à apresentação da influência da atividade de inteligência nas relações internacionais, aos aspectos conceituais, teóricos e metodológicos da inteligência e do controle da Administração Pública e dos serviços secretos. A partir desse embasamento doutrinário, segue-se para a segunda parte, na qual são estudados os casos do Brasil e do Canadá, considerando-se a maneira como os sistemas de inteligência se estruturaram em cada país e como se exerce o controle da comunidade de informações. Conclui-se comparando os modelos de supervisão e revisão brasileiro e canadense, e discutindo-se a possibilidade de aproveitamento da experiência de ambos para o perfeiçoamento do controle. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
The main objective of this Dissertation is to study intelligence and the mechanisms of control over secret services, particularly in Brazil and Canada. The first part of the Dissertation is dedicated to analyze the influence of intelligence in international relations along history. It also contains a presentation of theoretical and methodological approaches of intelligence, and a general perspective of control related to secret services. The second part evolves the study of the intelligence systems in Brazil and in Canada, and the particular mechanisms of control and accountability in each country. To conclude, a comparison between Brazil and Canada is made, considering the control of the intelligence community, especially in terms of external review and oversight.
Leukam, Lako Franklin. "Protection des données à caractère personnel pour les services énergétiques." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Institut polytechnique de Paris, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021IPPAS004.
Full textSmart grids are important bricks in the fight against climate change. Smart grids allow the massive introduction of renewable energies, which are intermittent, while guaranteeing grid stability, i.e., ensuring a real-time balance between demand and production in the power grid. The management of grid stability is possible thanks to smart meters installed in households, allowing the distribution system operator to collect consumption/production data from consumers/producers at a time step of up to 10 min in France. This real-time consumption data enables to provide new energy services, such as customer consumption forecasts or demand response. Demand response services help to avoid consumption peaks in a neighborhood by ensuring that, at all times, users' consumption does not exceed the maximum power of the local grid. However, the collection of users' consumptions is a key privacy concern. Indeed, individual consumption data reflect the use of all electric appliances by inhabitants in a household over time, and enable to deduce the behaviors, activities, age or preferences of the inhabitants. This thesis aims to propose new energy services, while protecting the privacy of consumers. We propose five contributions that relate to two themes:1- The transformation of a demand response algorithm by making it privacy friendly. This transformation uses secure multiparty computation, allowing to compute an aggregate, such as a sum of users’ consumption, without disclosing any individual consumption.2- The publication of sum of users' consumption while preserving privacy and good utility. This publication uses differential privacy, ensuring that the publication of the sum does not indirectly reveal individual users' consumption. Among other energy services, these sums of consumption enable to perform consumption forecasts
Piątkowski, Andrzej. "Służby specjalne w demokratycznym systemie politycznym." Doctoral thesis, 2015. https://depotuw.ceon.pl/handle/item/982.
Full textDissertation was being written with two tasks in mind: to verify two hypothesis presented in it and to provide general characteristic of intelligence services perceived as governmental institutions responsible for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in democratic political system. Due to the lack of sufficient theoretical basis in the field of intelligence it was also necessary to precisely identify the subject of research by defining main terms used. The main tackled issue was influence of relations between intelligence survives and political power on fulfilling objectives in the field of foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and secret operations and if the correct realization of those task is rests solely on services themselves or is dependent on those relations. Relationship between intelligence services and political power is perceived in the dissertation both as administrative one (governing, coordination, supervision, control) and as an informal mutual contacts amongst the two parties. The second issue is connected to the problem of legitimizing of certain intelligence services actions (especially secret operations) in the environment of democratic political system. Two hypothesis were verified within the dissertation: 1) any political decision makers interference in intelligence services actions decreases the effectiveness of those actions; 2) certain intelligence operations cannot be legitimized within a democratic political system.
Bulan, Jiří. "Je třeba reformovat české zpravodajské služby?" Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-312595.
Full textHanžl, Pavel. "Mezinárodněprávní aspekty získávání informací zpravodajskými službami." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-351720.
Full textKOUTSKÝ, Tomáš. "Informační síť hlavního představitele protirakouského odboje T. G. Masaryka v době první světové války." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-254082.
Full text"Is secrecy still the soul of business?: a discourse analysis of national intelligence services' home pages." Tese, MAXWELL, 2006. http://www.maxwell.lambda.ele.puc-rio.br/cgi-bin/db2www/PRG_0991.D2W/SHOW?Cont=9569:pt&Mat=&Sys=&Nr=&Fun=&CdLinPrg=pt.
Full textStreet, João Pedro. "A "Secreta" sob o olhar da sociedade: a relação entre a opinião pública e o sistema de informações da República Portuguesa." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12811.
Full textThis dissertation explores the relation between Public Opinion and the Portuguese Republic Intelligence System (SIRP). In this sense, it´s intended to explain how the public faces the intelligence services and how these services overcome the difficulties imposed by the predecessor institution known as PIDE - DGS. This investigation was structured into three parts. Firstly, it will portray the evolution of the intelligence services over the years, therefore providing a full understanding of how the intelligence and services operates in our days. Secondly, it will not only consider the new relationships and structures within the political and social classes, but also how they have created new communication models and forms to interact with each other, resulting in new ways to influence political decisions and public opinion. At last, it will explore the importance of public opinion for an institution such SIRP, bringing to light which tools and strategies they have used to overcome the reviews. In terms of methodology, it has been done a use of direct and primary sources in order to sustain the final review, where authors like Castells, Blumer & Kanvanagh and McNair describe the formation of digital communities and the new communication models; Habermas and Augras who describe and support the concept of public opinion and finally, Herman, Vegar, Cardoso and so many others who explain the evolution of the intelligence services.
Narciso, João Miguel Oliveira. "O acesso a dados de tráfego pelo Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/97501.
Full textAs sociedades contemporâneas ao serem confrontadas com uma nova e ampla gama de ameaças ambicionam um novo tipo de respostas para as quais os tradicionais instrumentos repressivos previstos nas legislações processuais penais, ainda que alicerçados num paradigma iluminista fiel à proteção dos direitos fundamentais, são perspetivados como insuficientes e desadequados. Não sendo alheio a esta realidade o poder estadual, deslocando a sua intervenção de um plano repressivo para um plano preventivo, encontrou no reforço dos poderes conferidos aos serviços de informações (também conhecidos de acordo com a terminologia anglo-saxónica como “serviços de inteligência” ou de forma não tanto rigorosa como “serviços secretos”) um dos meios por excelência para a satisfação dessa crescente demanda securitária. Ora, o presente trabalho tem, precisamente, o propósito de responder à questão que em Portugal mais tem dominado o debate sobre o reforço das capacidades operacionais desses mesmos serviços e que poderá ser sinteticamente enunciada do seguinte modo: devemos incluir no elenco de meios de atuação do Sistema de Informações da República Portuguesa o acesso a dados de tráfego? Esse acesso não é ainda constitucionalmente conforme com o direito ao sigilo das telecomunicações porque estando o tráfego da comunicação abrangido pela tutela da comunicação à distância, não é possível inserir a atividade dos serviços de informações no âmbito da restrição expressamente delimitada pelo n.º 4 do artigo 34.º da Constituição devido às profundas divergências que intercedem entre a produção de informações e a matéria do processo criminal. Mas é também esta radical clivagem que suscita dúvidas sobre a possibilidade de um alargamento da restrição num processo de revisão constitucional. Assim, a ausência de outra argumentação que não a da garantia da segurança levanta a interrogação de saber se a restrição do direito ao sigilo das telecomunicações deve ser autorizada para uma fase preventiva e coberta pelo segredo de Estado ou se não deve permanecer como um método de utilização excecional na fase de inquérito do processo penal.
The contemporary societies are confronted with a new and wide range of threats and they claim for a new type of responses to which the traditional repressive instruments in the criminal procedure laws, even if based on an illuminist paradigm, are seen as insufficient and inadequate. The state power, understanding this reality, are shifting its intervention from a repressive phase to a preventive phase and found in the reinforcement of the powers conferred to the intelligence services (also known as "secret services") one of the means to satisfy this security demand. The present work aims precisely to answer the question that has most dominated the debate in Portugal about the operational capabilities of these services and can be summarised as follows: should we include the access to traffic data in the list of powers of the Intelligence System of the Portuguese Republic? This access is still not constitutionally compatible with the right to secrecy of telecommunications because, since communication traffic is covered by the protection of distance communication, it is not possible to include the activity of intelligence services within the scope of the restriction expressly delimited by the number 4 of article 34 of the Constitution, due to the profound differences between intelligence and criminal procedure. But it is also these radical differences that raises doubt about the possibility of extending the restriction in a constitutional revision process. Thus, the absence of any argument rather than the security guarantee raises the question of whether the restriction of the right to secrecy of telecommunications should be authorised for a preventive phase and covered by State secrecy or whether it should remain a method for exceptional use in the investigation phase of the criminal proceedings.