Terrorist 'pre-crime' detector field tested in United States
Screening system aims to pinpoint passengers with malicious intentions
Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security programme that can supposedly 'sense' whether you are planning to commit a crime.
Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, Nature has learned.
Like a lie detector, FAST measures a variety of physiological indicators, ranging from heart rate to the steadiness of a person's gaze, to judge a subject's state of mind. But there are major differences from the polygraph. FAST relies on non-contact sensors, so it can measure indicators as someone walks through a corridor at an airport, and it does not depend on active questioning of the subject.
The tactic has drawn comparisons with the science-fiction concept of 'pre-crime', popularized by the film Minority Report, in which security services can detect someone's intention to commit a crime. Unlike the system in the film, FAST does not rely on a trio of human mutants who can see the future. But the programme has attracted copious criticism from researchers who question the science behind it. more
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"Can FAST yield false-negative if the person has taken beta-blockers?"
"The issue shouldn't be weather it works, but that this couldn't in any way be more antithetical to the ENTIRE CONCEPT OF LIBERTY. The entire concept of liberty."
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.323.html
Anyway FAST means the end of being in love, so the end of human kind.
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Nothing to do with FAST I think (well, "she fled the room").
"They were saying the guest was a very nice guy, and then this," said a shocked housekeeper at the hotel. "Human beings are strange."
"I don't want to say it, but he tried to rape her," the bellman added. "It's a total copycat of what happened with the French guy."
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/05/30/2011-05-30_egyptian_businessman_mahmoud_abdelsalam_omar_busted_in_sex_assault_of_hotel_maid.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/
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