Posted on 09/01/2019 4:56:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google, Amazon and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could lead to violent behavior, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The proposal is part of an initiative to create a Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA), which would be located inside the Health and Human Services Department, the report notes, citing sources inside the administration. The new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for appointing its director.
HARPA would take after Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, which serves as the research arm for the Pentagon. The idea was first crafted in 2017 but has since gotten a renewed push after mass shootings killed 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, in August.
The Suzanne Wright Foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes, or Safe Home, the report notes, citing two people familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump has a close relationship with Bob Wright, who founded the foundation after his wife died of cancer. Wright was a former chair of NBC and occupied that position while the president hosted “The Apprentice.”
HARPA would develop “breakthrough technologies with high specificity and sensitivity for early diagnosis of neuropsychiatric violence,” according to a copy of the proposal. “A multi-modality solution, along with real-time data analytics, is needed to achieve such an accurate diagnosis.”
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Full title: Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun
I’m safe. I have neither.
Trump-big tech alliance for the wrong reason.
PING!
This will never happen with President Trump.
Insane and dangerous to our liberty.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
I don’t have any of those spy machines. I’m pretty sure my Garmin Forerunner doesn’t tattle to big tech.
I would certainly hope not.
Social credit score-Here we come!
fake news
Some Forerunners do.
“This will never happen with President Trump.”
If he is reelected he will either be ultra liberal or ultra conservative his last 4 years.
I would never say it will never happen.
Why am I thinking of the recent story about Trump using nukes on hurricanes.
Unless I see it on his Twitter/Facebook, or see him actually say those words on TV, I don’t believe it.
I have a Samsung NOOK reader. Does that count? It has GPS.
Why should I believe the Washington comPost?
“If he is reelected he will either be ultra liberal or ultra conservative his last 4 years.”
Just like going into his first term. And just like then, hard to see him siding with the Left, after what they’ve done to him.
all I can say is...oh.my.God
All I need to tell me I can own a firearm is in the Constitution.
I do not need these freaks to tell me if or not I can
This doesn’t pass legal review.
Must be fake news.
We still have a Second Amendment and no extra-judicial process can deny a person a firearm for more than about 72hrs.
Yes, they will use it to inform them under Red Flag laws in some states. But those restrictions are short-lived.
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