TSA WANTS “SUSPICIOUS” SPOTTER

As if you weren’t ner­vous enough in the air­port. The Transportation Security Administration has started to hunt for tech­nolo­gies that’ll secretly spot “sus­pi­cious behav­ior” in pas­sen­gers.
The request for infor­ma­tion, filed by the minds of the William J. Hughes Technical Center in the Atlantic City Airport, hopes to find ways to “sense pat­terns of indi­vid­u­als’ phys­i­o­log­i­cal response(s) and/​or overt behav­ior that are reli­ably asso­ci­ated with mali­cious intent.”

Proposed tech­nolo­gies may be applic­a­ble to the screen­ing of trav­el­ers or of employ­ees of trans­porta­tion facil­i­ties (e.g., air­ports, rail sta­tions, and bus ter­mi­nals) and car­ri­ers.
Ideally, pro­posed tech­nolo­gies will be non inva­sive, remote, covert, pas­sive, auto­matic, and suit­able for area, as well as por­tal use. However, alter­na­tives requir­ing con­tact, inter­ac­tion (challenge-​​response, for exam­ple), man­ual oper­a­tion, etc. will also be considered.

Great. Just great. (via Cyrptome)

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