Homeland Security Application Monitors Crowds' Faces, Races, and Eye Movements to Detect Would-Be Criminals

so someday in the futue when I'm walking about the grocery store nervious or agitated about something completely unrelated, I can expect to be tackled by law enforcement on the way to the check out? extreme example, but I am really not OK with this kind of tech in this kind of application.

time to trot out that well worn Benjamin Franklin quote: "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

*cough cough* minority report *cough cough*

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The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain.

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Yet another failed facial/person recognition system.
People have been trying unsuccessfully to get these systems to work since the late 90's. The only real problem that they cause stems from the fact that they only work a small minority of the time, even yielding false positives.

I'll be glad when we get past all the hype surrounding "artificial intelligence." One day, true strong AI will happen, along with excellent computer vision, speech recognition, etc, but not for another hundred years or more.

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Department Homeland Security wants to detain people for pre-conceived guilty expression. The pre-conceiving part software is predetermined by our government. The concepts of this software are wrong for many different reasons and perspectives and the fact it’s being actively develop with our tax money seems illegal too.

Basically it comes down you, me, everyone are being pursued by our government without a warrant.

PreCrime Held indefinitely for no reason. that's FREEDOM.

Nods of agreement to jedimindset and mp. Perhaps the first serious testing sight of these awesome new technologies should be the Senate and the House of Representatives. Corporate board rooms might also be a great place to start.

I think this technology is unnecessary and yet another example of the government overstepping their bounds.

Unless it's looking for white males wearing custom pin-stripe suits and hermes ties while walking around in imported italian shoes then it will most likely pick up only petty thieves.

As long as US citizens are incapable to rise up, their government will keep on to take away their dignity and rights.

last i knew you had to be under suspicion of committing a crime before being arrested; it would seem this would only give "the man" someone to pay closer attention to and then eihter catch them committing a crime or planning a crime and then take action: like anything else this could be abused: i too don't like big brother, but it seems you are all being a bit paranoid; the abuse comes from the people running the system, not the system itself

So if once in your life you caught and punish for a crime and pay your dues, now it gives the government complete access to stalk your every move?

Anyone ever get a speeding ticket or arrested for a minor infraction?

Well, now the government has free rein to make you their poster child.

Exactly at what point of time, does the government have a right to stalk you? This developing software is government approved stalking software. Since you haven't actually committed a crime yet; it’s just keeping a eye on you, just in case you might suggest of doing a crime.

You know there are some veterans that are really ruff and tuff and scary to see. But in fact, these people never broke a law. They are the good guys.
Some people actually like projecting the image of dominance so they can get along in life easier, without actually doing anything in the process. Now it seems you will be stalked by your local government for your intimidating projection.

Maybe because the software says you’re ugly, you need to be arrested for suspicion of the probability of doing a crime?

If our government is ever allowed to use this or any other pre-crime device; The people of the world are doomed! Hell I think its bad enough that most industries now vet their applicants with psych tests. Think about what it would be like to pass those and get called in for an interview, only to be told that a computer has judged you on your appearance as unemployable!

Mostly what I am trying to say is that it would be bad enough losing our rights to Fly, or being detained based on how a computer is programmed to filter out possible pre-criminal activity; Now imagine using the same tech to filter out any unwanted physical characteristic from a possible applicant for a job, or a loan, or any other thing you could possibly use this type of tech for! Its bad enough that industry now VETS its applicants with psych tests! If you don't believe me apply at Wall-Mart or Taco-Bell as an example!

But I guarantee; based on the fact that they are spending our tax money on developing it, they do plan on using it!

Personally I think the future outlook for the worlds other 99% is grim!

I see this system as a waste of money and time.

Isn't it enough that a person can be pulled aside just for having an Arabic name/Islamic dress/long beard/turbin? Now there has to be a system spying on people?

The government has way too much power.

@drchuck1

I agree. This is not a tool that immediately convicts people and has them arrested. It's a method to monitor for potential problems. It's no different than all those signs that you see about "Neighborhood Watch: Report Suspicious activities and person to local law enforcement".

Sure, that can cause problems for innocent people sometimes, but doing this is a way for law enforcement to be on its toes to react to criminal activities. Consider it an automated security guard.

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We do not need this, it is entirely wrong in every possible way. There is not currently, and never will be, any reason whatsoever to have a system such as this. People have the right to PRIVACY. This will completely abolish any privacy we have left. This proposition makes me uncontrollably angry. If this ever comes into actuality, I will move into the forest and live on my own.

Fascism, I say.

Hi,
I am a chief executive from the Bureau of Statistics. We like to dump some of statistics into this Future Attribute Screening Technology Software. Now statistically speaking a great quantity of female and children abuse comes from men and husbands. So we are going to add these people to this software. Oh, yes at much higher statistic x husband often are the ones identified in x wife violence. Are you a man? Any man ever been divorce? Well you are now in our software, because statically you have a high risk of being violent. Those American heroes that leave the military, yes they have a high risk of violent behavior and need to be added to the software as well. In fact the Bureau of Statistics will be adding a large quantity of people to this software very soon.

Food for thought....

Looks like Homeland Security agrees with Obama's "Indefinite Detention" policy. Being marked as a potential criminal is one thing, but being arrested for a crime I have not "yet" committed is in violation of the Law that this nation is founded upon... never mind purely insane.

The key word here people is "races."

1984 - it wasn't a warning, it was the blue print for the future.

Now we have technology to do the racial profiling for us. Great.

Now all we need is a Great Cleansing and we will be no better than the Nazis.

They got a real knack for pissing people off and making enemies. Just like they did in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries. Apart from spending trillions, they've never won a conflict though.

Talk about paranoia inducing. We certainly have to consider the ramblings of mad men warning us about big brother, thought control and other such things most consider nonsense, if the government is going to continue trying to incriminate and arrest us on whim and the wishful thought of imagined misconduct.