The language comes off super creepy at first blush, but it seems like this is centered more around public mental health, and not so much about ‘control’. I’d have to read deeper (not enough spare time at the moment), but I think the primary concern is detecting changes in neurological conditions in the public, possibly from disease or other threat.
Even if true, and it actually has a positive social intent, is how things like this end up getting utilized. For example, it seems like most law enforcement, particularly in the liberal big cities but also in the federal bureaucracy, have zero desire to solve the mental health problems endemic to the homeless. They also seem to consider it a sensitive civil rights issue to pursue justice as a remedy for those who commit criminal acts when mental health is concerned, but offer no other solutions. They certainly aren’t going to ‘destroy’ such groups as a mitigation. So who are these groups they refer to?
I recall reading in the mid 90’s an article linked by DrudgeReport.com describing how they had linked electrodes to a rat’s brain and, when they showed the rat a simple image of a sold circle or square, the electrodes would convey sufficient optical information that the shape would be drawn ‘electronically’ as an image on a monitor.
It was amazing and had a vague description about how it could help the public. But really, after reading it and talking with others, it seemed to be ‘mind reading’ technology. The article elaborated that it could draw images a person ‘saw’ while dreaming. What’s in the mind is recorded by electronics.