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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: Ramius
Putting customs and immigration under the same roof was good.

It was a horrible idea IMO. When INS and USC were separate there were many people in each organizastion that were experts in their respective fields. Now you have a massive organization full of people that have little to no job expertise.

81 posted on 10/08/2011 1:03:33 PM PDT by Ajnin (Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnocet!)
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