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Thursday, October 20, 2011

CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER

Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection

A US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on members of the public (DHS employees who "volunteered" to be test subjects).

DHS is building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent". DHS calls its "pre-crime" system Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST.

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