Pre Crime Detector F.A.S.T.

The US Department of Homeland (In)Security is developing a system designed to detect "hostile thoughts" in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. Project Hostile Intent as it was called aimed to help security staff choose who to pull over for a gently probing interview - or more.

Commentators slated the idea that sensors could spot people up to no good from their pulse rate, breathing, skin temperature, or fleeting facial expressions. One likened it to the "pre-crime" units that predict criminal behaviour in the movie Minority Report.

However, last week, the DHS science unit gave an update on the project, now dubbed the less-hostile-sounding Future Attribute Screening Technologies (FAST) programme. And, if DHS claims are to be believed, the research appears to be getting somewhere.

At an equestrian centre in Maryland, 140 paid volunteers walked through a pair of trailers kitted out with a battery of FAST sensors, including cameras, infrared heat sensors and an eyesafe laser radar, called a Bio-Lidar, that measures pulse and breathing rate from a distance.

Some subjects were told to act shifty, be evasive, deceptive and hostile. And many were detected. "We're still very early on in this research, but it is looking very promising," says DHS science spokesman John Verrico. "We are running at about 78% accuracy on mal-intent detection, and 80% on deception."

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-detector...

Video of the FAST Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wqooBmYfQ4

Thanks to 911tourettes for bringing this to my attention

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[zecnobot]

What if you're a smooth criminal? Does it detect that?

[Solablueangel]

The main purpose of this is NOT to detect your thoughts but to demoralize!!!! you into thinking you are akin to livestock!!!!!!! Are you a naughty bull? Or are you a docile moo cow? They don't care 'what you think' they CARE ABOUT THEIR POWER OVER YOU!

[amm8399]

that's freaking creepy

[thechinadesk]

Wow. Life imitates art.

The fascist, police state Omni Consumer Products (OCP) of "Robocop" infamy is no longer science fiction, but reality.

Even the narrator sounds like the the narrator of the spot ads in "Robocop."

[knoobidade]

This is an outrage to democracy and any free sociaty. They build some fancy machines you know nothing about and you go to jail if you piss them off! Open your eyes and defend freedom.

[happinesson]

can we use this to abruptly charge a suspect without any other evidence? there are still loop holes in here.

[ttheothereye]

this video might actually be of relevant value if it wasn't for having korn blasted in my ears every 5 fucking seconds. what are you in, 5th grade? PLEASE consider our eardrums.... cut out the shit

[greeny202a]

The machine obviously does not work!! I mean look at 3:50 a black guy gets in and the crime detection alarm bells don't even go off!

[jonjuan27]

Orwell was right about 1984, just wrong about the date.

[supermurloc64]

why the hell does the government have this guilty before proven innocent mentality.

before the 'security technology crap. it was innocent till proven guilty.

i would guess the government are getting paranoid.

[johndodrill]

Can this device discriminate between terrorist intent and the terror of having a government official touch your little boy's junk? How about the apprehension of having a government official touching Your junk? ...Posting a picture of your lady's very personal female sanitary items on the Internet? Hmmm....