In order to meet the specific objectives for ANITA, significant work has been carried out during the project towards the achievement of planned objectives: in particular, ANITA has contributed to the enhancing of investigation analytics services for Deep Web and Dark Nets by developing and delivering secure environment for extracting information from Darknets; dedicated crawlers; improvements and enhancement implemented according to the feedback from end-users; and their integration with the central platform. Accurate and efficient Big Data analytics services were also released combining a set of visual analytics with algorithms for text/visual/trend/translation analysis, visual indexing and speech to text.
Progress beyond SOTA concerned also the automated domain knowledge collection, modelling, sharing and reasoning capabilities to support LEAs activities based on i) ANITA completed set of ontologies modeling the domain knowledge for the use cases; ii) a completed set of ontologies enabling the semantic interoperability; iii) specific services to store, search and retrieve relevant entities, events and activities in a dedicated Knowledge Graph. Furthermore, the ANITA criminological analysis reports and recommendations has contributed to a better understanding of the phenomenon and its route causes and defining efficient counter measures and policy making acts. All this research progress has allowed ANITA tools and services to reach TRL7.
As far as social, ethical, privacy and legal requirements, ANITA adheres completely with technical and organizational requirements for compliance with the principle of data protection by design, GDPR and cybersecurity legal framework.
In terms of the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of ANITA, Ethics and Privacy Impact Assessment has been made ensuring that activities performed throughout the project’s lifecycle adhere to the highest European Union ethical, privacy and data protection standards. In addition, a LEAs cooperation policy has been released in order to tackle the issue of misuse, and to facilitate the LEAs in addressing known issues related to the proper collaboration necessary to carry out procedures for compliance with data protection legislation. Guidelines for curricula development were designed with the intent to contribute at promoting innovative educational paths, oriented primarily to LEAs to increase awareness, knowledge and the exchange of good practices.
