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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And yet the feds assured us that all that Able Danger business was nonsense.
wait, I thought profiling in anyway was...BAD!
At least according to the Obammie Admin.
You will assimilate...resistance is futile.
That’s Profiling... Thought the government would not tolerate it?
If we had a real opposition party, then the Republican party would expose this. Their silence speaks volumes of how they feel about this.
a preliminary survey by DHS concluded that owners of firearms, and those who posess bibles are far more dangerous than other members of society
Don’t tell me; To stop those Right wing militias that Bozo Napolitano says are the biggest threat to the US or to translate; Biggest obstacle to turning the US Commie.
Make no mistake & think that the Republicans would refuse to use this system . They would have a hard on just like the Democrats .
His Satanic Majesty, 0bama of Mordor, a Son of Perdition!
If they go by breathing and heart rates, any person that does hard labor will be in trouble.
My Resperation and heart rates goes up every time I think about Bacon Cheeseburgers or Shania Twain.
FAST is a technology demonstrator for a screening system for large public events or secure areas. The Future portion of FAST stands for the inclusion of evolving technologies, not predicting future crimes. DHS paid for the development of a mobile trailer that can be easily modified to include different types of screening equipment. For people concerned about the health and privacy concerns of backscatter X-ray machines this should be a good thing.
This technology could still only be used for events that require submitting one self for security screening. Putting it on the street and forcing the public to walk through it would still be a Fourth Amendment violation.
“... my respiration and heart rate goes up every time I think about Bacon Cheeseburgers or Shania Twain”.
What happens to you if you think about Shania Twain eating a bacon cheeseburger?! LOL!!
@AttackWatch.
Part of the criminal profile is a “profile” on FR.
I just bet the government has psychologists working on this. Shouldn’t they be losing their licenses because of the ethics questions? It is similar to the doctors in the concentration camps doing human “experimentation”.
Heck...anybody that has donated to Palin is automatically a subversive....that money belongs to the Borg...
Odd how the Liberals decried “profiling” to catch the bad guy AFTER a crime has been committed, but don’t seem to have a problem with this explicit profiling BEFORE the crime is committed.
This sounds like they're trying to develop technology to duplicate that and be idiot proof enough to be used by the politically-correct affirmative action hire union drone that's become the standard for government employees.
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