Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection (Big Government™ is watching you)

CNET ^ | 2011-10-07 | Declan McCullagh

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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."

The latest developments, which reveal efforts to "collect, process, or retain information on" members of "the public," came to light through an internal DHS document obtained under open-government laws by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. DHS calls its "pre-crime" system Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST.

[bamahead]

IB4TP!

[SECURE AMERICA]

Nonsense..

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

It’s a brave new world.

[rabscuttle385]

...a "prototype screening facility" that [Obama] hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent"...efforts to "collect, process, or retain information on" members of "the public"...

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[basil]

God help us!

[Semper911]

breathing, and heart rate

My respiration and heart rate are part of my medical information, and are therefore covered by HIPPA.

FUBO

[the invisib1e hand]

i began to write a story about this some years ago, but never finished it. the premise was that they came looking for you when you did something that was an “outlier” according to your profile.

[umgud]

it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing,..........

Sounds kinda racist to me. Kinda like profiling too.

[wastedyears]

And America will bend over and take it.

[af_vet_rr]

Just wait until they merge it with whatever is left of the Information Awareness Office.

[ThunderSleeps]

I wonder if we can make a FOIA request for the algorithms and input/weighting factors used? I would love to know how this works. I’d be willing to bet a couple months pay that firearms ownership, being straight, non-minority, employed, and anything but a registered democrat weighs against you and makes you a suspect...of their brave new socialist paradise...

[expat1000]

“Hate crimes” - criminalizing thought - opened the door for this.

[GOPJ]

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."

Bill Ayers could be carrying a bomb and his heart rate wouldn't go up - he's a liberal - and DHS doesn't care about getting a liberal any more than Larry Flynt cares about getting a liberal...

[Redcitizen]

Of course there will be exceptions for terrorists and other “victims”.

[RIghtwardHo]

What Nation is this anymore?

[hoosierham]

When President Bush announced the creation of a DEpartment of Homeland Security I was incensed and fearful for the future of freedom.

Sometimes you just hate to be correct.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Sounds like profiling. They SHOULD be taking ethnicity, etc. etc. into account.

[C210N]

ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate

This is profiling plain and simple!

ethnic profiling, gender profiling, breathing profiling, and RATEism.

[old curmudgeon]

Well, the first place this should be used is on every single person in the Red House inner circle, the czars, the various secretaries and department heads with the. Obummer and Eric Holder should be the first.

Then put one on each member of congress.