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Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection (Big Government™ is watching you)
CNET ^
| 2011-10-07
| Declan McCullagh
Posted on 10/07/2011 8:18:33 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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.
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To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:22:59 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:24:52 PM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:26:07 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
To: Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
...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"...Libertarian ping! Click here to get added or here to be removed or post a message here!
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:26:07 PM PDT
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rabscuttle385
(Live Free or Die)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:26:36 PM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: rabscuttle385
breathing, and heart rateMy respiration and heart rate are part of my medical information, and are therefore covered by HIPPA.
FUBO
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:29:06 PM PDT
by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: rabscuttle385
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.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:35:39 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: rabscuttle385
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.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:35:50 PM PDT
by
umgud
To: rabscuttle385
And America will bend over and take it.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:35:54 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Attaaack Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatch)
To: rabscuttle385
To: rabscuttle385
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...
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:39:50 PM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: rabscuttle385
“Hate crimes” - criminalizing thought - opened the door for this.
To: rabscuttle385
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...
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:42:19 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Where is the headline that says: Obama Murders Hundreds of Mexicans! - freeper xzins)
To: rabscuttle385
Of course there will be exceptions for terrorists and other “victims”.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:44:18 PM PDT
by
Redcitizen
(Transmute lead into gold-- buy ammunition.)
To: rabscuttle385
What Nation is this anymore?
To: rabscuttle385
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.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:51:04 PM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
To: All
Sounds like profiling. They SHOULD be taking ethnicity, etc. etc. into account.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:55:54 PM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many conservative Christians my age out there? __ Click my name)
To: rabscuttle385
ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate This is profiling plain and simple!
ethnic profiling, gender profiling, breathing profiling, and RATEism.
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posted on
10/07/2011 8:58:03 PM PDT
by
C210N
To: rabscuttle385
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.
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