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  • Pentagon System Hopes to Identify Walks [hopes to identify people by the way they walk]

    05/19/2003 1:28:24 PM PDT · by John Jorsett · 39 replies · 202+ views
    The Guardian ^ | May 19, 2003 | Michael J. Sniffen
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Watch your step! The Pentagon is developing a radar-based device that can identify people by the way they walk, for use in a new antiterrorist surveillance system. Operating on the theory that an individual's walk is as unique as a signature, the Pentagon has financed a research project at the Georgia Institute of Technology that has been 80 to 95 percent successful in identifying people. If the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, orders a prototype, the individual ``gait signatures'' of people could become part of the data to be linked together in a vast surveillance...