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IBM Patenting Airport Profiling Technology
An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek's Wolfe's Den reports that IBM has filed a dozen applications to patent a sophisticated airport security system which supports passive software-based profiling of potentially dangerous passengers off of pre-programmed rules. The setup uses a collection of sensors — video, motion, biometric and even olfactory — in terminals and around the airport perimeter, to supply raw data. 'These patents are built on the inference engine, which [analyzes sensor data and] has the ability to calculate very large data sets in real time,' says co-inventor Roger Angell. A small grid of networked computers delivers the necessary processing power. Two applications go one better than Israeli-style security, analyzing furtive glances to detect, according to the title of the patent application, 'Behavioral Deviations by Measuring Eye Movements,' as well as measuring respiratory patterns."
While I agree with you, apparently a lot of people out there are still scared to death. It doesn't matter that you can hit them with facts and statistics until you're blue in the face, they apparently "need" for the government to look like it's doing something to solve the issue.
That's why I say it's a need.
The sheep are still scared, over something that happened almost 10 years ago.
Tragic.
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Actually, no one did try to blow up a plane. If they had, they wouldn't have been let on by a CIA agent, and they would have brought enough explosives to do the job. What's happening is that our own government is telling us to be scared so that they can tell us that we should give them more power so they can keep us safe.