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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Nor do I.
I think the rule of law requires that a crime be committed before action can be taken in this regard. Anticipating a crime is magic and pixie dust, neither which can be presented as fact in court.
Of course, what’s to stop such abuses and usurpations of liberty?
(hint, hint)…..
Washington Post. Fake News?
If it's real, it's a really bad idea. Big Brother spying on us is a form of tyranny. Contracting it out to leftist Big Tech doesn't make it any better.
Fake News.
The Washington ComPost, eh???
“The Washington Post reported”
really, no need to read or comment further ...
“Unless I see it on his Twitter/Facebook, or see him actually say those words on TV, I don’t believe it.”
exactly! that’s how i feel about ALL news related to President Trump: unless i see video of him saying it or a verified tweet from him, i treat whatever the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia is saying about President Trump as fake news ...
Yeah...sorry let’s stop this thread immediately. It’s complete nonsense. There’s zero credibility to this and, even on the face of it, it doesn’t align with anything PDJT has said or done.
Very fake news....
This is an exceptionally bad idea.
Already got the concern trolls riled up....Y’all must use a LOT of antacids getting so “concern-ee” all the time...
Pffft... my nephew has one if those gizmos, his house is totally smart. Which, since he’s a network/IT company owner I guess it makes makes sense, he even has a smart vacuum robot that continually gets stuck under his smart refrigerator hahaha.
Yry to get a descent cuppa coffee at his place? Ain’t happening.
Back in the old days when everybody carried, if somebody got froggy out in public they just ventilated them... problem solved
After all this time it’s amazing the knee jerk is still so strong here. It’s depressing and I find myself coming less and less and less.
The Javanka line really cringed me. Man, conservs are supposed to be smart but many seem to learn nothing...
The Trump administration has been laser focused on big tech spying on citizens. Hard to believe they'd bolster big tech’s spying in this environment. Just my take.
Just staying under their radar. I have an old Magellan GPS I use in the car.
lol
You misunderstood my comment; I don’t trust anybody, particularly where it concerns my rights as a human being.
No doctor knows what I own or don’t own, it’s NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS.
The only thing they get on their stupid forms is my name, age, and whether I feel healthy at the moment.
Fixed it.
If all the sane people leave, the nutcases will run the place...we’ve been infiltrated by folks who have been polluted by the long-term PC crowd and the leftist agenda and many don’t even realize it ...they can be very rabid in espousing their “conservatism” and just as rabid as they help the Left complete its agenda...waiting for them to show they have the intelligence to learn by watching and listening (educational method) rather than listening to the voices in their heads...
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