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Brain Scanning May Be Used In EU Security Checks

Posted by timothy on from the who-do-you-think-you-are? dept.

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from the Guardian: "Distinctive brain patterns could become the latest subject of biometric scanning after EU researchers successfully tested technology to verify identities for security checks. The experiments, which also examined the potential of heart rhythms to authenticate individuals, were conducted under an EU-funded inquiry into biometric systems that could be deployed at airports, borders and in sensitive locations to screen out terrorist suspects." The same article says that "The Home Office, meanwhile, has confirmed rapid expansion plans of automated facial recognition gates: 10 will be operating at major UK airports by August." I wonder what Bruce Schneier would have to say about such elaborate measures.

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  1. Yes! Psi cops! by Mendoksou · · Score: 5, Funny

    Using this in conjunction with the new Google Brain search should make spotting nefarious terrorists, murderers, drug traffickers and torrenters easy. The program should be run by Alfred Bester.

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  2. No fly list by sakdoctor · · Score: 3, Funny

    This passenger has the sloping brow and cranial bumpage of a plane-jacking terrorist.

  3. Could brain formatting be next? by xp · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if airport security accidentally invokes brainscan with the --format flag? Also, does this mean brains are open source now?
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    1. Re:Could brain formatting be next? by MadKeithV · · Score: 2, Funny

      My brain runs ReiserFS.
      On second thought, maybe that's not such a good idea.

  4. Medical benefits? by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll have to up the minimum requirements for being the security check person from "some highschool" to "med school graduate"

    Now offering free prostate exams with every flight!

  5. Re:Reality called by MadKeithV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pah, I can tell from all the way over here that you are thinking about Natalie Portman.

  6. US already uses this technology at the Capitol by z80kid · · Score: 2, Funny
    We already use this technology to safeguard admittance to our nation's capitol building.

    If brain activity is detected, then you are not a Senator.

  7. Re:Next up: thought crime by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It works now, haven't you noticed?

    Since September 12, 2001, exactly zero passenger aircraft have flown into the World Trade Centre! That has to show that the system works!

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