Posted on 10/26/2016 10:11:30 PM PDT by dayglored
Transport hubs in Los Angeles, Denver and Washington are soon to trial Total Recall-style high-speed body scanners
A startup bankrolled by Bill Gates is about to conduct the first public trials of high-speed body scanners powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the Guardian can reveal.
According to documents filed with the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Boston-based Evolv Technology is planning to test its system at Union Station in Washington DC, in Los Angeles’s Union Station metro and at Denver international airport.
Evolv uses the same millimetre-wave radio frequencies as the controversial, and painfully slow, body scanners now found at many airport security checkpoints. However, the new device can complete its scan in a fraction of second, using computer vision and machine learning to spot guns and bombs.
This means individuals can simply walk through a scanning gate without stopping or even slowing down – like the hi-tech scanners seen in the 1990 sci-fi film Total Recall. A nearby security guard with a tablet is then shown either an “all-clear” sign, or a photo of the person with suspicious areas highlighted. Evolv says the system can scan 800 people an hour, without anyone having to remove their keys, coins or cellphones.
Millimetre-wave scanners are useful because they can identify both metallic and non-metallic items, such as 3D printed guns and explosives. But they have also attracted criticism because scanners were able to capture realistic images of people’s bodies beneath their clothes.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/25/airport-body-scanner-artificial-intelligence
Great. Just what we need. Perverted robots.
How ya doing, FRiend? Been a while since I've heard from you...
If this scanner will replace TSA and having to remove my shoes or belt, I’m wanting to hear more about it.
Because the computers aren't perfect, right?
Completely pointless because the globalist elites will exempt muslims from these scans.
lol. We HAVE to double check. Can’t trust a machine!! It’s our duty as Americans!
unconstitutional (see the 4th Amendment).
They are going to harass ccw folks this way. Anyone who has anything for self defense.
They will exempt themselves too.
“George Orwell please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Paging George Orwell....”
this does NOT sound good AT ALL
but if it replaces the BS-KRAP and WAITING and GROPING at the airport, that one application might be worthwhile?
Artificial intelligence doesn’t “power” anything.
800 per hour is 4.5 seconds per person.
I kind of liked the ‘idea’ of a booth big enough to hold ALL your luggage etc that one at a time they step in and if explosives sensed, a big BOOOOOOOM follows.
Two birds with one stone.....
>as the controversial, and painfully slow, body scanners<
c’mon folks, grow up.
the long lines are because the TSA employees want more money.
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