STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Tuesday, 13 May 2014

[Demeter]

10. There is art and sadly, misplaced science:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/identity-profiling-covert-biometrics.html



DARPA has begun a four year research program called ‘Active Authentication’, which will focus on methods to validate identity online using cognitive biometrics, such as computers which ‘recognise’ the operator by assessing their habitual movements, and comparing it to their stored profile to validate identity in real time...Late last year, DARPA announced another research project called ‘Human Identification at a Distance’, which includes developing techniques which can covertly collect reliable heart biometrics to verify identify without any contact with the person being tracked. Wired.com announced,

“In 2006, Darpa developed Radar Scope,which used radar waves to sense through walls and detect the movements associated with respiration. A year later, the Army invested in LifeReader, a system using Doppler radar to find heartbeats. More recently, the military’s been using devices like the AN/PPS-26 STTW (“Sense Through the Wall“) and TiaLinx’s Eagle scanner, which can sense the presence of humans and animals through walls.

Handy though these gadgets may be, Darpa wants to one-up them with some new and better capabilities. First off, Darpa wants its biometric device to be able to work from farther away. Right now, it says the accuracy of most systems taps out at around eight meters. And while some see-through devices can see through up to eight inches of concrete, they don’t do as well in locations with more or thicker walls. So Darpa’s looking for the next system to push that range past 10 meters, particularly in cluttered urban areas.”



the following features can be tracked from a distance, covertly:

Face
Iris and retina
Eye movements
Veins
Ears
Outline of hand patterns
Body odour
Finger prints
Finger image
Keystroke
Voice
Sweat pores
Vital signs: heart signature, brain wave patterns – these are unique to each individual because of our DNA (the heart and brain are composed of protein tissues)
Behavioural/cognitive biometrics e.g. gait, breathing, emotional responses to targeted stimuli, galvanic skin response.
Gait

http://www.infowars.com/new-behaviometrics-technology-allows-government-to-know-what-youre-thinking/

Big Brother doesn’t just want to know where you are, he wants to know what you’re thinking. Short of implanting a device in your brain that divulges your every thought, the government has opted for the next best thing – behaviometrics – a new omnipresent surveillance technology developed for the US Air Force and destined to be used in law enforcement to “monitor suspicious behavior”. The system revolves around a camera that tracks facial movements biometrically in order to build a psychological profile of the individual under surveillance.

“Huntsville, Alabama’s Photon-X, Inc. recently received an Air Force contract to develop such a camera,” reports Wired News. With one snap, the company claims, its sensor can build a three-dimensional image of a person’s face: the cornerstone of a distinctive “bio-signature” that can be used to track that person anywhere. With a few frames more, the device can capture that face’s unique facial muscle motions, and turn those movements into a “behaviormetric” profile that’s even more accurate.

This new technology is the next step up from DARPA’s infamous gait analysis program, which purported to be able to identify terrorists by the way they walked.