Real-life "Minority Report" program gets a try-out

[thundley4]

More terrorizing of the citizens from the Obama Regime.

(CNET)  Updated 2:12 p.m. PT: An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned.
If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama "Person of Interest," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."

The latest developments, which reveal efforts to "collect, process, or retain information on" members of "the public," came to light through an internal DHS document obtained under open-government laws by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. DHS calls its "pre-crime" system Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST.

"If it were deployed against the public, it would be very problematic," says Ginger McCall, open government counsel at EPIC, a nonprofit group in Washington, D.C.

It's unclear why the June 2010 DHS document (PDF) specified that information is currently collected or retained on members of "the public" as part of FAST, and a department representative declined to answer questions that CNET posed two days ago.

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I guess by ethnicity, they mean white people.

[FreeBorn]

I think we should develop a simple pre-flight screening booth for the TSA to use at the airports.

A blastproof enclosure that wouldn't discriminate since everyone would have to pass through. Once a person enters sensors in the booth detonate any explosive devices detected. Either they pass without incident and board their flight or someone has to get on the intercom and call for a cleanup in booth #6.