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For those that have watched the movie, ‘Minority Report’ back in 2002, well, 9 years later the US government agency – the Department of Homeland Security is working on crime predicting technology that in some ways eerily mimic the the theme of the Steven Spielberg movie.
The beginning stages of the new technology was recently tried out at an undisclosed location in the northeast US.
The types of things that the technology can remotely monitor are ‘your‘…
Heart rate
Fidgety actions
Eye movements
Blink rate
Body temperature
Breathing patterns
The technology acronym is FAST, the Future Attribute Screening Technology.
Welcome to the new world.
If you thought that TSA screenings were bad or encroaching on your liberties as a citizen, wait until you’re questioned in line because you fidgeted your feet more than ‘normal’, or you were singled out because your heart rate is a bit too fast. You will then have to explain to them that perhaps you are stressed out over some personal situation – maybe work or home… you will have to assure them that you are not a terrorist… and show them your ‘papers’…
The area becomes very gray when technology advancements are deployed for the common good, while at the same time eliminating more and more life-situations where one is really free or not being watched or tracked or monitored in some way.
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here’s hoping the doctors actually did fix my SVT or my heart rate will spike for no reason…
So they’ll end up catching all the first time criminals but none of the hardened ones who are bored with the process? interesting…
Israel has been dealing with terrorists for ages and their air traffic safety is far less invasive than ours, it’s also considerably more effective. At the moment I drive in the US and cross to Canada before flying international. It’s a damn shame I feel safer in a Chinese airport than a US one.
Well this is just dumb, they’re gonna be interviewing everyone. Don’t know anybody that at one time or another hasn’t had these issues. Can’t we just go back to profiling? All you pre-menopausal, menopausal and post-menopausal ladies, carry on. All you people with ADD, carry on. All you middle-aged and old people with labile blood pressure, carry on. All you folks with anxiety disorders, carry on. All you guys with lint in your eye, carry on. Anybody leftover with all your faculties left, let’s chat, tell us why you’re so calm, cool, and collected, what’s up with that?
I hope someone puts a Cuban coffee stand near all of their monitoring devices.
Ha ha thats gold! Imagine the ensuing terror in the faces of the TSA agents…
So the tsa has you handcuffed, sitting in a chair, in a darkened room, with only a swinging 100 watt light bulb above your head.
There are three tsa gestapo/agents standing there. On is holding a stun gun, another has a rubber hose, and the third has a pair of wire cutters in his hand.
“Why are you nervous? You guilty of something? Why is your heartrate and blood presure way up?”
yup… coming soon to an airport near you (and probably me too)…
I prefer isreals way of detecting terrorists at the airport, a reinforced glass and steel frame structure and a bomb detonator with the worker. the tsa and the other alphabet agencies need to go.
EVEN THOSE AFRAID TO FLY, OR INTIMIDATED BY BEING SEARCHED, OR PUT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HAS NOT ALL TOGETHER BEEN PROVEN SAFE, OVER TIME….YOU WILL SHOW ALL THESE SYMPTOMS ABOVE….DOES NOT MAKE YOU GUILTY, OR EVEN A SUSPECT…….IT IS NONSENSE…..THESE ARE NORMAL BODY REACTIONS, UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES, ALL VERY HUMAN
I plan to talk with my House of Representative (R) NUGENT. perhaps he can give us a answer as to how they got the cash for these expensive combat ready vehicles, (along with a huge cache of super-duper munitions- Gads&Gads of BULLETS). while the Secretary of DHS…says they will have to lay off all those TSA officials at all our airports to make us wait forever to board for air travel.
Sooooo……what do they do when a terrorist blows himself/herself up inside one of the X-Ray scanners? I mean THAT’S the place to do it! They can see the bomb right before their ass goes through their head! You are free to do anything you want right to the point of security. Even then you have to go through the check point…..massive people massive carnage.
What then……move us all out to the parking lot before we can enter? Well then what happens if the parking lot gets bombed. A check out at your home? I mean seriously!!??