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More About: SurveillanceNow they want to scan your bones
By
Kaye Beach
AxXiom
for Liberty
A
few weeks ago I devoted an entire show to
the subject of theTSA’s use of Full Body Scanners. I suggested that even if you were not
concerned about the possible negative health effects of the scanners, even if
you had no concerns about how the images might be shared or used, and even if
you did not particularly feel violated by the use of the devices, that you
might think about refusing anyway.
One
of the reasons I suggested this is because the government will never seems to
be satisfied with just one more ridiculous level of intrusion. They will push it as far as we allow.DHS
justified increased placement and use of the body scanning machines (even before
the underwear bomber incident) based upon the observation that most people were
accepting them with no fuss. This is a precedent that the government takes as
an invitation to keep pushing the envelope.
Well, now they are looking at “skeletal scans” using x-rays, gamma rays or some other type of
energy “to create a bone signature for
each person”
The
federal government, according to the second article below, wants the scans to
operate at a distance of 50 meters and the developer says they could be
deployed within a year.
I
noticed the reference to a “skeletal scan” in the first article and then did a
quick search on “skeletal scan” which produced the very informative second piece.
Please,
please resist now while we still have that ability.
Facial-recognition
solution offers surveillance new edge
Published
20 July 2010
When the
new facial-recognition solution finds a match in a database for someone who may
be on a watch list, the client may be notified in multiple ways, including text
message or e-mail alerts; biographical information such as criminal records are
added and the images and made available to the client from any Web browser,
including Web-ready mobile phones
[. . ]Our
niche is live security in the surveillance and counterintelligence
environment,” he said. “Facial biometrics is the first thing we chose to take
on. Our goal is to layer in other
characteristics such as iris and gait recognition and skeletal tracking.” (Emphasis
added)
Wright State researchers developing skeletal scans to recognize terrorists
August 19,
2010
The Wright State Research Institute is developing a
ground-breaking system that would scan the skeletal structures of people at
airports, sports stadiums, theme parks and other public places that could be
vulnerable to terrorist attacks, child abductions or other crimes. The images
would then quickly be matched with potential suspects using a database of
previously scanned skeletons.
[. . .]the
Wright State Research Institute is developing a ground-breaking system that
would scan the skeletal structures of people at airports, sports stadiums,
theme parks and other public places that could be vulnerable to terrorist
attacks, child abductions or other crimes. The images would then quickly be
matched with potential suspects using a database of previously scanned
skeletons.
[ . . .]Ryan Fendley, the research
institute’s director of operations and strategic initiatives, said scanners
could be used wherever there is a controlled point of entry. “It could go
anywhere,” he said. “It could be in every airport. You could put it in a hotel
if it gets down to the right scale and cost.”
[. . .]X-rays,
gamma rays or other forms of body scanning would be used to create a bone
signature for each person.
[. . .]Custom
computer software would enable newly scanned skeletal images taken of people
are airports, stadiums or theme parks to be quickly compared with those in the
database
[. . .]A
scan would likely take about five seconds, and a match could be found within
another 10 seconds, Kidambi said. “That’s our biggest challenge—to accurately
acquire bone signatures at a distance,” said Skipper, adding that federal
officials would like to see accurate skeleton recognition from 50 meters.”
[. . .]Depending on the selected
technology, a skeletal scan would only expose a person to radiation that is the
approximate equivalent of taking one cross-country airline flight. Basing the
scanners on currently available bone density scanners could allow the
technology to be deployed in the field within a year, Kidambi said. Wright
State has a couple of bone-density scanners that could be used to build a
prototype. The scanners could be deployed in the field within a year, Kidambi
said.
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1 Comments in Response to Now they want to scan your bones
Hey Kaye! It's Oyate! How did you find your way into this cesspool of intellectualism? Call me some time.