domingo, 27 de agosto de 2017

The Pentagon’s Secret Pre-Crime Program To Know Your Thoughts, Predict Your Future - TruePublica

The Pentagon’s Secret Pre-Crime Program To Know Your Thoughts, Predict Your Future - TruePublica

 

By Dr Nafeez Ahmed: US
military contractors are mining social media to influence your
‘cognitive behavior’ when you get angry at the state. The US Department
of Defense (DoD) wants contractors to mine your social media posts to
develop new ways for the US government to infer what you’re really
thinking and feeling — and to predict what you’ll do next. Pentagon
documents released over the last few months identify ongoing classified
research in this area that the federal government plans to expand, by
investing millions more dollars.

 The Pentagon’s Secret Pre-Crime Program To Know Your Thoughts, Predict Your Future

TruePublica Editor: As consumers we’re almost
powerless to avoid the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon who continue
to dominate the digital sphere as they continue to mine and extract
more and more data about our lives. However, they have only just started
as digital mining techniques get ever more sophisticated and intrusive,
which is now getting really quite alarming. The article below by award
winning journalist Nafeez Ahmed gives an insight into what the US and UK
have in store for us moving into the next decade.