Homeland Security’s Minority Report Ambitions

Published: August 14, 2007, 10:34 am

Tags: big brother, social engineering, police state

Wired Aug 13, 2007 By Sharon Weinberger Can technology predict bad intentions? The Department of Homeland Security is hoping it can, though even experts working on the technology are dubious that this is a silver bullet. The New Scientist reports this week on how a “battery of lasers, cameras, eye trackers and microphones begin secretly compiling a dossier of information about your body.” The goal of all this technology is to predict your future intentions. It sounds far-fetched, but this is the aim of Project Hostile Intent (PHI), the latest anti-terrorism idea from the US Department of Homeland Security. According to DHS spokesman Larry Orluskie, the DHS wants to develop systems that can analyse behaviour remotely to predict which of the 400 million people who enter the US every year have “current or future hostile intentions”. PHI aims to identify facial expressions, gait, blood pressure, pulse and perspiration rates that are characteristic of hostility

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