Mind Reading Scanners for US Borders
A new generation of border security screening has surfaced within Homeland Security; and testing of an innovative search mechanism that can read your mind is currently underway.
The body scanner type device is a system called Malintent and as opposed to screening machines that look for metals and explosives, this one is programmed to detect a person's intentions; and can determine whether someone is out to terrorize or be a dangerous nuisance. Searching the human body for non-verbal cues, this brainchild of Homeland Security's Human Factors division is able to foretell any individual's menacing intentions to hurt fellow passengers.
With the sensors and equipment for reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration levels, all packaged in a mobile laboratory around the size of a trailer truck, this is no polygraph test. There are no wires or straps; the series of sensors and images operate like an 'X-ray for bad thoughts'.
Malintent was put to a field test in Maryland where 144 people were scanned; most of them unknowingly. The average DC area residents were told they were attending a tech expo. Rigorous safety tests were done on subjects to prevent any physical or emotional harm following the tests.
How it works is - warning signs are transmitted to analysts when the sensors identify that something is not right with a subject. That person is flagged and sent to a second screening involving micro-facial scanning of minute muscle movement in the face, that measure mood and intention. Seven main emotions and emotional cues can be measured by DHS and these are reflected in the contractions of facial muscles.
If a passenger is rushed or stressed this mobile lab called "Future Attribute Screening Technology" or FAST won’t be fooled, as it can tell the difference between bad guys and a rushed and nervous traveler - even if one sweats a lot naturally.
Never before has a comprehensive screening device such as this one, been put together and while some politicians score it as a home run, some question privacy issues with this invasive scanner that gets a chance to clock all ones vitals.
DHS has however declared that data scanned is immediately dumped and not maintained. It is also unable to track who you are.
Screening technology will further develop with the eye scanner planned for release next year and pheromone-reading technology by 2010. Equipment that reads body movements will also soon be added.
A new generation of border security screening has surfaced within Homeland Security; and testing of an innovative search mechanism that can read your mind is currently underway.
The body scanner type device is a system called Malintent and as opposed to screening machines that look for metals and explosives, this one is programmed to detect a person's intentions; and can determine whether someone is out to terrorize or be a dangerous nuisance. Searching the human body for non-verbal cues, this brainchild of Homeland Security's Human Factors division is able to foretell any individual's menacing intentions to hurt fellow passengers.
With the sensors and equipment for reading body temperature, heart rate and respiration levels, all packaged in a mobile laboratory around the size of a trailer truck, this is no polygraph test. There are no wires or straps; the series of sensors and images operate like an 'X-ray for bad thoughts'.
Malintent was put to a field test in Maryland where 144 people were scanned; most of them unknowingly. The average DC area residents were told they were attending a tech expo. Rigorous safety tests were done on subjects to prevent any physical or emotional harm following the tests.
How it works is - warning signs are transmitted to analysts when the sensors identify that something is not right with a subject. That person is flagged and sent to a second screening involving micro-facial scanning of minute muscle movement in the face, that measure mood and intention. Seven main emotions and emotional cues can be measured by DHS and these are reflected in the contractions of facial muscles.
If a passenger is rushed or stressed this mobile lab called "Future Attribute Screening Technology" or FAST won’t be fooled, as it can tell the difference between bad guys and a rushed and nervous traveler - even if one sweats a lot naturally.
Never before has a comprehensive screening device such as this one, been put together and while some politicians score it as a home run, some question privacy issues with this invasive scanner that gets a chance to clock all ones vitals.
DHS has however declared that data scanned is immediately dumped and not maintained. It is also unable to track who you are.
Screening technology will further develop with the eye scanner planned for release next year and pheromone-reading technology by 2010. Equipment that reads body movements will also soon be added.
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