Big Brother Really IS Watching-The year is 2012 (Computer World)

[kpete]

Big Brother Really Is Watching

Homeland Security is bankrolling futuristic profiling technology to nab terrorists before they strike.
Robert L. Mitchell

January 14, 2008 (Computerworld) -- The year is 2012.

As soon as you walk into the airport, the machines are watching. Are you a tourist -- or a terrorist posing as one?

As you answer a few questions at the security checkpoint, the systems begin sizing you up. An array of sensors -- video, audio, laser, infrared -- feeds a stream of real-time data about you to a computer that uses specially developed algorithms to spot suspicious people.

The system interprets your gestures and facial expressions, analyzes your voice and virtually probes your body to determine your temperature, heart rate, respiration rate and other physiological characteristics -- all in an effort to determine whether you are trying to deceive.

Fail the test, and you'll be pulled aside for a more aggressive interrogation and searches.

That scenario may sound like science fiction, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is deadly serous about making it a reality.

more at:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9055198

[Echo In Light]

1. Zealous conspiracy deniers must be in a tizzy anymore as more & more

Of the things they used to flat out deny existed become part of the mainstream establishment "reality" for Brainwashed America.

[havocmom]

2. a-yup

and there will be fewer people traveling. If one is nervous about flying, one will likely set off all the alarms and be treated to special care by TSA.

On the upside, with less people traveling, there may be a slow down is spread of viruses. ;) Too bad about all the workers who will lose their jobs when all the air carriers go belly up. cheney will tell them they just don't have enough education and THAT's why they end up unemployed. x(

[AX10]

3. What about people with high heart rates....

and who persperate easily?