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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Agreed, plus I don’t want the exposure. With PreCheck I skip but on occasions where that doesn’t work, I suffer with groping.
In 2001 the DHS/TSA has 0 employees. Now it has 240,000+.
This could be a case of tech putting people out of employment.
Watch for the contortions and hypocrisy some humans go through on this.
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