FBI moves forward with plans to build $1billion database of Americans’ photographs for new facial recognition software

 

FBI plans to create a database of criminals‘ faces are well under way.

The $1billion scheme will help officials fight crime by matching surveillance photographs with images of known offenders.

But privacy advocates have decried the wide-ranging project as ‘a national photographic database’ which will eventually encompass the innocent as well as criminals.

Surveillance: The FBI, pictured, is building a database of people’s faces

The Next Generation Identification programme has been in the pipeline for several years and is now coming to fruition, according to the New Scientist.

The plan involves using several hi-tech identification measures such as DNA analysis, voice recognition and iris scans to help fight crimes.

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But the centrepiece of the project is facial recognition, a technological breakthrough which the FBI says will be invaluable in solving and preventing crime in the future.

The software has two primary uses – one is to allow officials to pick out an individual from a crowd to facilitate surveillance.

The other new step is the ability to take a photograph and compare it against a database of faces which would in theory contain all former criminals, like fingerprint databases do today.

Technology: It is hoped the face recognition software will help law enforcement pinpoint wanted criminals more quickly and accurately

Facial recognition software is already used by social networking sites such as Facebook to help users ‘tag’ their friends in photographs, and it is believed to have an accuracy rate of over 90 per cent.

However, some campaigners are concerned that by using such sites and other sources, the government could build a photographic database of nearly every American, casting suspicion on those who have done nothing wrong.

FBI official Jerome Pender told a Senate hearing earlier this year that until now the project has only involved those previously convicted of a crime.

But the bureau has not yet confirmed that it does not plan to include photographs of the general public in the programme after it is fully operational in 2014.

The FBI has previously worked with bodies which issue drivers’ licences, raising the spectre of all holders of state identification being entered into the database.

A spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union told the New Scientist: ‘Once you start plugging this into the FBI database, it becomes tantamount to a national photographic database.’

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FBI COMPUTER VIRUS SWEEPING ACROSS NATION

 

New nasty demands $200 payment to ‘unlock’ PC

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There’s a nasty computer virus going around that shocks users by putting on the screen a claim that the FBI and the federal government has taken control of the computer because it has been linked to illegal activity.

Further, it controls the computer’s Web camera and makes it look like an image of the user is being streamed to the government.

“It is scary. The first time we saw it we jumped back and said, ‘Hey, what is going on?’” Alex Diaz, with Top Tech Experts, told KTRK-TV in Houston.

The latest wave of attacks has hit the Republican National Convention in Tampa, where numerous computer users lined up at computer centers for help removing the malicious software.

Diaz told the Houston station the new FBI scam tries to convince users that they have done something wrong and have been caught.

It then demands that the user purchase a pre-paid debit card for $200 and enter the card number so the “fine” can be paid and the computer unlocked.

“With anything that you see with FBI warnings, you want to be alarmed and read it properly, but do not send any money,” Diaz advised the station. “The FBI is not taking money from you, or wanting any money from you in that manner.”

Federal investigators confirm it’s just a new twist on an old theme used by scammers – scaring people into sending them money.

But technical experts say the computer effectively is worthless until the virus can be cleaned.

The The Hillsboro, Kan., Star-Journal reported that local computer users were being threatened for “owning or distributing copyrighted material, pornography, or malware.”

The virus also threatens criminal action for those who fail to pay.

Several anti-virus program companies already were addressing the concerns, posting notices about the “FBI Moneypak Virus” and instructions on how to remove it. Spyware, spybot and other companies also posted warnings and advisories about the problem.

Officials with Geek Squad, Best Buy electronics company’s computer fixit shop, said the software is accurately described as a “ransomware, “which states the user’s computer is locked and requires payment via Moneypak cards.”

The company declined to comment on the number of cases its technicians have seen.

“We do encourage individuals to take the proper precautions, because it is dangerous from the perspective that if individuals purchase Moneypak cards and pay the ransom they have no way of getting the money back or filing a claim,” the company statement said.

The Kansas Better Business Bureau also is warning about the situation. And Agence France-Presse noted the worldwide impact of the scam.

“We’re getting inundated with complaints,” Donna Gregory of the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center said of the “Reventon ransomware.”

“Some people have actually paid the so-called fine,” she told AFP.

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The Dangers Of Big Brother Recording Your Every Move

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Recent doomsday reports alluding to an extensive government spying network and a fictional scenario in which domestic insurrection was crushed by the military have created a wealth of media hype and speculation, but they also raise valid questions of how to address these civil liberties issues before they become a reality.

Experts are saying the advanced surveillance systems revealed recently by Wikileaks isn’t quite as pervasive as reports might have you believe — yet. And an extremist uprising scenario posed by the Small Wars Journal is merely a work of fiction — for now.

Still, both are possibilities that these experts say should be taken seriously and evaluated in terms of the philosophical and legal challenges that technological advances will present for the government and law enforcement.

The debate was stoked recently by the Small Wars Journal with a report on July 25 assessing how the U.S. may need to prepare for domestic challenges such as “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement” taking over a South Carolina town, requiring military intervention to quash the uprising.

The scaremongering continued last week with a report by Wikileaks, claiming to have the scoop on “Trapwire” – an extensive system of surveillance software — complete with allegedly leaked emails that could lead one to believe the government had access to a host of spying cameras across the nation.

But just how concerned should you be about TrapWire’s facial recognition technology and the potential for Big Brother recording your every move? TheBlaze spoke with technology and military experts about TrapWire and the feasibility of surveillance technology such as this monitoring to the extent that has been speculated.

As a bit of background, Friday afternoon, TheBlaze reported Wikileaks had unleashed news of a surveillance program that used equipment “more accurate than modern facial recognition technology.”

This technology by the Virginia-based company TrapWire is meant to track suspicious activity at high-profile locations, which range from military bases to the White House to casinos and hotels in Las Vegas. The emails and several media reports allege that through this technology the “U.S. government is secretly spying on everyone,” as the Daily Mail put it.

A screenshot of the Virginia-based company TrapWire’s website.
Scot MacTaggart, the regional director of PSX, Inc., who heads up security engineering for the property surveillance company, said he considers the emails regarding TrapWire’s technology overhyped “marketing-speak.”
MacTaggart said facial recognition technology is still largely a failure that is only 60-7o percent accurate. This lack of accuracy, he said, is not good enough for serious applications of the technology.

“I find it hard to believe they could radically improve the facial recognition technology,” MacTaggart said, citing the fact that the idea has been around for decades and still isn’t being used in many applications.

He also noted the extreme bandwidth that would be needed to transfer the large amount of data picked up by the cameras and the need for a “tremendous” data center to store it. Ray Cavanagh, a vice president for the firm Crescent Guardian, Inc., expressed similar thoughts and said managing the amount of data would be “unfathomable.”

“Where would a respository of data like this sit?” Cavanagh said, also noting that he too considered facial recognition software still in its infancy. “Even if there were one, it would have to be updated continually.”

Dan Stynchula, a consultant for AEgis Technology Group, also said that he realizes the facial recognition technology isn’t perfect, but he believes the data center to house this information could very well be one owned by the government.

A data center large enough to store all this, Stynchula speculates is the one under construction by the National Security Agency in Utah. Although he acknowledges this is assumptive, he calls it an “informed hypothetical.”

Where does Stynchula think storage of this information could lead?

“A system like this could generate a large stream of revenue,” he said, pointing out that constant surveillance could record a variety of offenses, identify the person via facial recognition and send them a fine in the mail.

But looking down the road, the infrastructure set up to monitor people becomes more disconcerting, Stynchula said, when you think of changing views toward protection of civil liberties. He noted that with centers storing this data, it could open the door for retrospective prosecution.

On the other hand, Cavanagh said for those who are concerned about privacy from surveillance technology, “I would ask them if they’ve ever shopped online.” He points out that people were concerned about privacy with regard to online shopping as well but now many use it.

“People need to recognize that technology is not the evil here,” Cavanagh said. “Can technology be used for evil purposes? Of course. Technology is not inherently evil though. We need to look at how we can harness it to make the world a better place.”

Overall, Stynchula said these reports at least serve the purpose of starting the conversation in society.

“Where do we as a society want to draw the line?” Stynchula questioned. “What will we allow these agencies to do outside the Constitution?”

With regard to the fictional scenario of extremists taking over in South Carolina, this was presented in an article published in the well-respected Small Wars Journal titled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future.”

The authors are retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army’s University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber, a Civil War expert at the University of Kansas.

The article imagines a extreme members of the Tea Party taking control of Darlington, S.C. in May 2016, “occupying City Hall, disbanding the city council and placing the mayor under house arrest.” The rebels also set up checkpoints on Interstate 95 and Interstate 20 patrolling for people in the United States illegally.

The article has been criticized by many. The Washington Times, for example, called it a “cartoonish and needlessly provocative scenario“ that ”is a choppy patchwork of doctrinal jargon and liberal nightmare.”

Sill, combining this fictional scenario with the recent leak regarding TrapWire, the government having a network in place to sense civil unrest before a situation like this were to take place seems to go hand-in-hand.

Brandon Webb who operates the website SOFREP (the Special Operations Forces Report) and is a former Navy SEAL told TheBlaze setting up systems like this to thwart terrorist attacks are a valid necessity, provided “strict privacy laws that prohibit the unauthorized spying on American citizens” are followed.

In terms of a civil uprising, here’s what Webb wrote:

I think that there is a legitimate concern that an “Occupy” type of movement could gain serious traction and there are some in government who worry that it will not be quite as peaceful. The article in the Small Wars Journal titled “Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A ‘Vision’ of the Future.” talks about civilian insurrection and a military response.

This is very troubling to hear as a citizen and veteran who has served in combat to protect civil liberties. Especially concerning is that SOFREP has received and confirmed anonymous reports that the U.S. Military and Private Military Companies (PMC’s) were used offensively during the Katrina disaster and riots. This is unacceptable in my view.

He continued saying that while the government “needs to wake up and smell the unrest,” it needs to look at why people are unhappy and start taking care of people’s concerns.” He said, if “we ignore this too long … we’ll have our own version of the Arab Spring, albeit a more peaceful “Tea Party version, I imagine.”

Christians Fear Mark Of The Beast Technology In Biometrics

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Moss Bluff Elementary School in Lake Charles, La., wanted to speed up the cafeteria line and reduce errors in lunch accounting. So the school bought a Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric ID system, which has a scanner that reads the unique patterns of blood vessels in a human palm, enabling a positive ID, much like a fingerprint would.

When school officials sent out a letter announcing the program, some parents freaked out.

The parents had concerns centering around the belief that all forms of biometric ID constitute what the Christian Bible calls “the mark of the beast.”

Wait, what?

Here’s what it says in Revelation 13:15-18: “And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, OR the name of the beast, or the number of his name … and his number is six hundred threescore and six.”

I was surprised to learn while researching this column that opposition to any sort of biometric ID systems for payment might be widespread among some Christian groups.

A Christian blogger named Elwood Sanders summed up the biblical case for rejection of biometric ID like this: “Let me state my position clear: NO BIOMETRIC ID CARD! PERIOD! Every evangelical Christian needs to say NO to this kind of thing.”

The case of Moss Bluff Elementary highlights our current reality with biometric ID technology: It’s becoming so mainstream that schools are using it in their cafeterias. But some people are rejecting it based on religious grounds.

So will pervasive biometric ID be adopted? Or rejected? The answer is less clear than you might think.

How evil is biometric ID?

Opposition to biometric ID is pretty widespread, and most of that opposition is based not on prophecy, but on concerns about privacy.

A Senate hearing last month revealed the U.S. government’s own concerns about the use of facial-recognition technology, both by government law enforcement agencies and private companies like Facebook.

Europe is broadly resisting Facebook’s facial recognition initiative, especially Germany.

A professor from Spain’s Universidad Autonoma de Madrid told the Black Hat conference recently that researchers there have come up with a way to hack iris recognition systems that fools the systems into identifying one person as another, raising fears that the main benefit of biometrics — certainty — may not be as reliable as promised.

There are many privacy organizations and advocates with serious reservations about the use of biometric identification technology of any kind.

Moreover, many people associate fingerprinting with criminality, and they just don’t like the idea of it.

In general, privacy advocates view biometric tools — especially those that can operate from a distance, such as facial recognition systems — as grease on the slippery slope toward an Orwellian future in which the government can track everyone at all times with perfect accuracy.

So we find ourselves in a strange position in which some religious conservatives and some secular liberal privacy advocates both agree that biometric identification is evil.

Both groups can be vocal and influential. I predict that general opposition to biometrics will grow strong over the next few years.

But so will support for the technology.

Your body is the credit card

The cashless society is coming. The first step is the use of smartphones to make wireless payments.

Google, Apple and others are pushing hard to move money out of your wallet and into your phone.

The idea is that you’ll walk into a store, transfer money from your account to the store, then walk out. No wallet necessary.

But without your wallet, how do they know it’s really you?

Apple is buying the fingerprint company AuthenTec. It’s likely that Apple will use the acquisition to build fingerprint ID into its products so you can use your Apple ID to buy anything.

Android phones are expected to increasingly offer fingerprint ID systems and other biometric tools.

It’s just a matter of time before a majority of Americans are carrying biometric ID scanners in their own pockets.

Florida schools are talking about using biometric ID technology not only in the cafeteria, but also in the library and on the bus.

Japan is looking at using facial-recognition systems and other tools to speed up immigration procedures at two major airports.

A day care center in Minnesota is using fingerprint ID to make sure people picking up children are authorized to do so.

Biometric technology is even being proposed as the solution for cloud-computing security.

The people who accept and approve of biometric ID technology do so because it adds security and convenience to our everyday lives.

So it appears we’re headed for a clash. On the one hand, you have a huge push for biometrics to replace signatures, passwords and photo IDs.

On the other, you have a large number of people who consider biometrics an unparalleled evil, and they will refuse to participate.

Who’s right and who’s wrong? Is biometric technology the answer to our security problems? Or is it just plain evil?

New Cyber Threat Hits Middle East Banks

“Gauss” malware has resembles the Stuxnet and Flame programmes and is thought to have been developed by a “nation state”.

“Gauss” resembles the Stuxnet worm which infected Iranian computers in 2010

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A complex new cyber-espionage threat that targets online banking has been uncovered in the Middle East, researchers told Sky News.

The “Gauss” malware has a striking resemblance to the Stuxnet and Flame programmes, and is so complex it could only have been developed in conjunction with a ‘nation-state’, according to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.

Analysts declined to speculate on who might be behind the virus, but said it shared elements of the same source code and basic architecture as Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu, and had likely originated in the same lab.

Both Israel and the US have been accused, and denied, having connections to Stuxnet, a cybersabotage programme apparently targeting computers in Iran, although also found in high concentrations in India and Indonesia.

The Stuxnet worm, one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever detected, was able to take control of industrial machinery  by hijacking control systems.

Flame and Duqu were cyber-espionage weapons, stealing sensitive information from infected computers, and in the case of Flame – able to access the target’s keyboard and microphone.

Gauss appears to be in the cyber-espionage vein – but this time targeting financial information, and overwhelmingly focused on users in Lebanon.

Kaspersky says the virus can steal browser passwords and online banking account credentials, although they believe the malware is monitoring transactions, rather than stealing money.

Attacks are overwhelmingly focused on Lebanon, targeting customers of Bank of Beirut, EBLF, BlomBank, ByblosBank, FransaBank and Credit Libanais, as well as users of Citibank and PayPal, which are popular in the country.

Alexander Gostev, Chief Security Expert at, Kaspersky Lab, said: “Gauss bears striking resemblances to Flame, such as its design and code base, which enabled us to discover the malicious program.

“Similar to Flame and Duqu, Gauss is a complex cyber-espionage toolkit, with its design emphasizing stealth and secrecy; however, its purpose was different than Flame or Duqu.

“Gauss targets multiple users in select countries to steal large amounts of data, with a specific focus on banking and financial information.”

The name “Gauss” was given by the malware creators and appears to reference the German mathematician Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss.

It was first discovered in June 2012, but subsequent analysis suggests it had been active since September 2011.

Kaspersky recorded 2,500 infections from late May 2012, but estimate the total number of victims could be in the tens of thousands.

Five command and control servers behind the attacks shutdown in July 2012, shortly after the virus was discovered, and the malware appears to be dormant at the moment.

Those servers have all been traced to fake domain names, registered to valid physical addresses, all of which appear to be unrelated public places.

The false identities target addresses in the US at first, before migrating to Portugal and India.

Gauss appears to be using a sophisticated method of transmission, with the ability to “disinfect” contaminated USB drives after a set number of executions, effectively covering its tracks.

Homeland Security warns: Hackers targeting popular Niagara software

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Millions of machines and devices over the Internet are managed through Niagara Framework. Now, the Department of Homeland Security is alerting organizations around the world that the software is vulnerable to hacker attacks.

Whether you are a business, a military organization or healthcare provider using Niagara to remotely control or monitor your medical devices, elevators, video cameras and security systems, you should immediately prohibit guest users, bolster passwords and cut off direct access to the Internet. These steps may prevent hackers from exploiting your configuration and software flaws, cybersecurity officials warned on Friday, according to the Washington Post.

The alert comes hot on the heels of Thursday’s report by the same newspaper describing the vulnerabilities of the Niagara software that were discovered by two security specialists, Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle. According to the report, potential intruders could access files containing user names and passwords using a common hacker technique known as “directory traversal attack.”

In a private alert, Niagara’s maker, the Richmond-based company Tridium, warned its customers last week about these potential security issues. It was only last Thursday that it first came up with a public alert – months after it was first notified of the potential problem.

Tridium’s parent company, Honeywell, issued its own statement on Friday in response to the alert.

“We’ve released a security alert guiding our customers how to verify that their system is properly configured to protect against directory traversal. In addition, we will soon be providing a software update that hardens those settings against inadvertent user changes,” says the statement.

In a blog post cited in the department’s cyberalert, Rios praised the DHS for its efforts but criticized Tridium for the delay. DHS officials explained, however, that they had delayed the warning to allow Tridium to work on fixing the problems.

Experts: U.S. Cyber War on Iran Has Just Begun

Experts believe a U.S. cyber war against Iran’s nuclear program has only just begun and could escalate.

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By Elad Benari, Canada

First Publish: 7/14/2012, 2:15 AM

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A U.S. cyber war against Iran’s nuclear program may have only just begun and could escalate with explosions triggered by digital sabotage, experts told AFP on Friday.

Although the Iranian regime remains vulnerable to more cyber attacks in the aftermath of the Stuxnet wormthat disrupted its uranium enrichment work, Tehran may be receiving help from Russian proxies for its digital security, some analysts said.

According to David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is “really not that well protected” from more digital assaults and Iran will be hard-pressed to safeguard its uranium enrichment efforts from tainted software.

“With Stuxnet, they lost about a year. And it caused a lot of confusion. They really didn’t know what hit them,” Albright told AFP. “It looks like a viable way to disrupt their program.”

The United States, which reportedly masterminded the Stuxnet operation along with Israel, has every incentive to press ahead with a cyber campaign to undermine Iran’s atomic ambitions, according to analysts.

The next cyber attack, possibly in combination with more traditional spycraft, could shut off valves or issue incorrect orders that might cause an explosion at a sensitive site.

“I think that it could get more violent,” Albright told AFP. “I would expect more facilities to blow up.”

“There is of course the possibility of sending in a team to modify a system in a way that would make it vulnerable, and then use a cyber weapon at a later date as a trigger event,” said David Lindahl, research engineer at the Swedish Defense Research Agency.

A new wave of cyber attacks could involve inserting hardware with infected chips into the industrial process, possibly through an agent or a duped employee, or penetrating diagnostic software used to gauge uranium enrichment or other work, Lindahl toldAFP.

Some cyber security experts suspect Russian proxies could be assisting Iran with its digital defenses, and possibly helped Tehran trace the origins of Stuxnet.

“The part that we probably miscalculated on in Stuxnet was the (possible) assistance of the Russians in attribution,” James Lewis, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told AFP.

“The Iranians never would have figured this out on their own,” he added.

The elaborate Stuxnet malware, which was reportedly introduced using a thumb drive, contained malicious code that caused centrifuges used to enrich uranium to spin out of control. The worm, meanwhile, sent back signals to operators indicating the centrifuges were operating normally.

After the malware was discovered in 2010, at least a thousand centrifuges had to be removed and analysts estimate Tehran’s program was set back by at least a year.

AFP noted that U.S. officials clearly view the risks associated with digital strikes as dwarfed by the dangers of an all-out war with Iran.

Bombing raids are “more likely to explode the region and certainly could lead to a conflict with Iran, and that would be very messy,” said Lewis. “Cyber is much cleaner.”

Another sophisticated computer virus, Flame, struck Iranian computer systems in May. The virus collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon.

Iran admitted that its oil industry was briefly affected by Flame, but claimed that Iranian experts had detected and defeated the virus.

Security researchers later said that they found a direct link between the Stuxnet worm and Flame, indicating that the two teams cooperated and collaborated. Western officials claimed that the U.S. and Israel jointly developed Flame.

(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

U.S. Cities Embrace Software To Automatically Detect “Suspicious” Behavior

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San Francisco is set to become the latest U.S. city to invest in software, created by Texas-based BRS Labs, that monitors and memorizes movements as they are captured on security cameras. The software, AISight, watches footage in real-time and—like a human would—learns to understand, detect, and report “suspicious or abnormal behavior.”

What exactly is defined as suspicious or abnormal behavior? That appears to depend on the environment in which AISight is operating. Its creators say it can be used to flag everything from “unusual loitering” to activity occurring in restricted areas. It could issue an alert after spotting a person leaving a bag unattended in a crowded airport, for instance, or raise alarm if a person is seen trying to cross a perimeter.

San Francisco’s Municipal Transit Authority believes AISight will give it the capacity to track more than 150 “objects and activities” continuously at 12 MTA train stations in San Francisco, according to public procurement documents. BRS Labs has also reportedlystruck a deal to monitor the new World Trade Center site in New York. And late last year it was announced that Houston had purchased AISight to be deployed as part of a “citywide surveillance initiative” to “identify potential criminal or terroristic behavioral activity.” It has also been installed in Louisiana for port security, and authorities in El Paso want to use it to monitor water treatment plants near the Mexico border.

The pioneering product has unsurprisingly been lauded by counter-terrorism industry aficionados, but it has caused alarm among privacy and civil liberties advocates. Like surveillance drones, biometric databases, and bomb-proof trash cans, opponents argue, AISight and similar technologies transform citizens into suspects. Because AISight is used to monitor and detect not just acts of crime but potential acts of crime, based purely on a set of algorithms, it is considered part of the push towards pre-emptive—or “pre-crime”—policing, which treats everyone as a potential criminal and targets people for crimes they have not yet committed (and may never commit).

For years researchers have been trying to develop advanced “intelligent” surveillance technology of this kind. The European Union previously ploughed €2.5 million ($3.1 million) into a project called Samurai to “develop a real-time adaptive behaviour profiling and abnormality detection system.” And the Department of Homeland Security has even been building a program called Future Attribute Screening Technology that it hopes will “detect cues indicative of mal-intent” based on factors including ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate.

Now that the technology is beginning to hit the marketplace, there is likely to be a sales boom. San Francisco alone plans to spend $2 million on AISight. A report last year by the Homeland Security Research Corp., predicted that this decade will see a fusion of CCTV with biometrics and “behavioral suspect detection”—a market it estimates will experience growth from $750 million in 2011 to a massive $3.2 billion by 2016. So when BRS Labs boldly boasts that AISight is “a revolutionary product that has changed the security industry forever,” it’s hard to disagree.