A recently released internal Department of Homeland Security document has revealed a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime before they have committed it. And it is already being tested on members of the public. DHS is betting on algorithms in a futuristic surveillance program, testing at a “prototype screening facility” to measure factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to “detect cues indicative of malcontent.” The documents were obtained under open-government laws by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. DHS calls its “pre-crime” system Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST.
YGBSM!! Is this a spoof? Hollywood fiction becomes bureaucratic 'fact.' And just what are these bozos going to do when they think they've proven a negative? Throw some poor shmuck into the tank for life based on…what?! When, oh when is somebody going to slap that toad, Janet Napolitano down? This is so far off the page that even Biden would know it.
Shootist66, pre-crime indicators have been detected in your nic. You have been deemed a risk to national security. Your home has been searched and a secret warrant issued for your arrest. Report immediately to the nearest DHS detention facility.
EEEK!!
A friend of mine told me that she and her husband were detained at the Canadian border for an hour and her car searched. At the end she gushed to the DHS personnel: "I don't care what you have to do, as long as it protects us go right ahead and do it." I said to her : 'You're about 10,000 times more likely to get raped than to be the victim of a terrorist attack. But if you were to cover your body from head to foot in a burka you would probably be safer. Would you wear a burka to be protect yourself from rape? No? Why not? Oh I see that would be an infringement on your freedom.'
But Burkahs would be the new fashion accessory. One thing I hear going through the airport Kabuki is "it makes us safe" so don't expect a country full of cowardly sheep to worry about their rights because they don't.
Woo hoo! Minority Report is becoming a reality….nice! Perhaps, the Dept. of Homeland Insecurity should consult with Comrade Castro and get some pointers from him on how to successfully implement such laws. The Commander in Chief was able to fill up his Cuban gullags with people his government deemed as having a proclivity to commit certain crimes (before they committed them of course). Then, he was able to release them unto the US via Mariel. Perhaps, the US can do the same exact thing…in the opposite direction this time. Ha ha!
I hope so. At least I could smoke decent cigars without harassment and see cheap or free Doctors.
If we're going to have modern prophets, I suppose Philip K. Dick would be a likely candidate.
I just read the entire CNET report and ran across this sentence buried within:
"Elsewhere in the document, FAST program manager Robert Middleton Jr. refers to a 'limited' initial trial using DHS employees as test subjects."
Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll all arrest each other.
So they got a Pre-Crime Detection Unit?
Janet Nacrapitano must be walking around with one huge hard on.