Homeland Security Moves Forward with ‘Pre-Crime’ Detection
October 8th, 2011Via: Cnet:
An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned.
If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called “Minority Report,” or the CBS drama “Person of Interest,” it is. But where “Minority Report” author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it’s building a “prototype screening facility” that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to “detect cues indicative of mal-intent.”
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FAST is designed to track and monitor, among other inputs, body movements, voice pitch changes, prosody changes (alterations in the rhythm and intonation of speech), eye movements, body heat changes, and breathing patterns. Occupation and age are also considered. A government source told CNET that blink rate and pupil variation are measured too.
A field test of FAST has been conducted in at least one undisclosed location in the northeast. “It is not an airport, but it is a large venue that is a suitable substitute for an operational setting,” DHS spokesman John Verrico told Nature.com in May.
Although DHS has publicly suggested that FAST could be used at airport checkpoints–the Transportation Security Administration is part of the department, after all–the government appears to have grander ambitions. One internal DHS document (PDF) also obtained by EPIC through the Freedom of Information Act says a mobile version of FAST “could be used at security checkpoints such as border crossings or at large public events such as sporting events or conventions.”
Although I don’t fly or go to sporting events, if I ever come across this tech, imma gonna breathe like darth vader after a marathon and jerk my head left to right while doing the funky chicken.
If enough people do this it will throw everything off.
I’m just wondering out loud here; what exactly do ETHNICITY and GENDER have to do measuring with intent?
Miraculix,
There assuming men commit more crimes than women (which is statistically true). They are also assuming most of those men will be dark-skinned. Dig?
-Ann
Disturbing and what’s worse, it won’t identify psychopaths since they don’t have those “anxious” indicators. Ethnicity and gender – they are so blatant. More innocents to fill the slave factories.
I like your idea ENERGYMAN :).
Can they make this work to ferret out the psychopaths who work in government and law enforcement?
Larry,
See:
https://cryptogon.com/?p=25365
for the answer. I’d be astounded if these 2 systems were not able to talk to each other.
I expect the code goes something like:
If fbi_face_id($POTENTIAL_PSYCHOPATH) in $TRUSTED_PERSONS:
do_nothing()
else:
send_the_goons_after($POTENTIAL_PSYCHOPATH)
and if you have to ask who is in $TRUSTED_PERSONS, you’re not on the list.
z