Minority Report to come to your nearest airport…
| June 10th, 2010If the US Government, Department of Homeland Security (our KGB), has their way, Airports are going to be one day fitted with Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) systems, that will be a “walk through” polygraph system. This system will supposedly tell a screener that you’re hiding something, not on your persons, but in your mind… and that’ll give them reason to take you aside for questioning. The technology is based on today’s polygraph systems, and will not require you to wear any devices to pick up your heart rate, or other vital signs, but will instead use “touchless” technology to watch your facial expressions, blink rate, LIDAR to read your heart rate, and thermal cameras to detect temperature changes inside and outside your body…
“In the laboratory now, we have a success detection rate [percentage] of malintent or not malintent, in the mid-70s,” says Robert Burns, the DHS programme manager for FAST. “That’s significantly better than chance or what the trained people can do.”
Sorry, but just because I may be hiding something, or keeping secrets, and being nervous about my travel situation, isn’t quite enough for anyone to take me aside for questioning.
These systems would strip our 4th amendment rights, when traveling. Of course, it’s all for our own good, so what’s the harm?
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
On what grounds does the government have to go into my mind, body, and make decisions based on how my body reacts to the stresses of what I know, and cannot disclose?
We all have secrets, we all have anxiousness to some level… what is “normal”? The sad part is, it’s our tax money being frittered away to the tune of $10,000,000 per year on this project, according to the article in Nature News.
Could we spend that money more wisely? I think so…
Airport security: Intent to deceive? : Nature News.
