Posted on 06/16/2021 8:55:52 AM PDT by bgill
A local company is working to make workplaces and schools safer as more people return to normal activities.
Athena Security, an Austin-based technology company, uses a heat source reference point (HSRP) blackbody device and a thermal camera to help detect a concealed weapon. The system can also detect body temperature, check for a face covering and ask health screening questions...
An Austin employment attorney said there are not legal concerns when it comes to companies using the technology.
"Texas law, in general, affords employers broad latitude to monitor employees’ actions in the workplace. The key is that they just have to be on notice of those," said Karen Vladeck, a partner at Wittliff Cutter, PLLC.
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Even home made ghost guns?
But checking for illegals is just wrong.
Isn’t this unconstitutional search? I know it’s by private individuals, but still.
Blackbody device and thermal camera is not software. It is hardware. The smart people become engineers and the less smart try to write about what engineers are doing.
Great insult to hardware guys. The thermal camera, etc., is what made this possible.
Bingo, Bullseye. They have truck mounted wall penetrating radar, unless you have a way to make your gun safe fuzzy, they can see them from the street. Once the Govt. has its ducks all lined up, it will take 2.5 months to disarm the whole country. We’re the only people in the world who can resist. They have a running N-word target on our backs.
I was just gonna say the same thing. Just need someone to program some AI to detect a difference in the heat signature and sound some alert.
My employer encourages concealed carry. :)
OK, in the Los Angeles school district in the 1990’s, because gangs were always bringing guns, they installed metal detectors and cops. That ended the problem.
It’s a scanner just say it. We already know it’s more than software as posted.
It turns concealed carry into open carry. Molon labe.
It’s like going to the Airport without actual going to the Airport, brilliant!
Aren’t there dogs that can sniff guns?......................
“Is that a gun in your pants or are you just happy to see me?”
I’m pretty sure, in Georgia, having a gun on your person isn’t probable cause for law enforcement to ask for proof of having a CCW.
So, while this technology will pass muster for a private entity to allow or not allow a person to enter a building, it doesn’t have much to do with catching folks.
And with more states passing Constitutional Carry it seems like a some engineers did a lot of work for nothing.
That is, unless or until the Left gets the chance to overturn some of these laws and I do recognize the fact that it can be abused by our government.
Athena Security, an Austin-based technology company, uses a heat source reference point (HSRP) blackbody device and a thermal camera to help detect a concealed weapon. The system can also detect body temperature, check for a face covering and ask health screening questions...
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Unless it is using ionizing radiation, such as x-ray, it cannot possibly “see” thru the side of a woman’s leather handbag.
I believe it is but if not it most certainly needs to be illegal. People are not going to put up with this crap. I have had many debates with Freepers that searches at public venues are illegal. Being a "private business" does not grant police power to search individuals. If a business is going to be open to the public then they must accept they have no right to search anyone. Selling me a ticket to a football game does not grant a right to search me in any way they want.
Lawyers will be along any second citing court cases and such to the effect of it's their venue and their ticket bla bla bla.
If you believe this then put it to the extreme test. Lets say a venue sells tickets to a sporting event and when patrons arrive they are subjected to strip searches before being allowed to enter the venue. Is this within their right because the venue by virtue of you buying a ticket can make whatever rules they want? If strip searches are not ok then how are any searches of individual persons ok?
Lastly, ask yourself do you want every place you go to be searching you electronically? The grocery store, the 711, Home Depot, the city park, the trendy downtown sidewalk.
Is that how we want to live? If not we will need to outlaw this outrageous trend. My suggestions would be amendments to the state constitution making any searches by private entities illegal as they should be.
Exactly. So folks won’t have to apply for thr harder to get ‘concealed carry’ permits anymore, since the machines make them no longer consealed
I can see their lies through my parabolic eyes
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