Minority Report is real: FBI wants to use social networks to prevent future crime

I wonder why the FBI spend tax payers money on matters like this one, why they haven't arrest any of the criminals from Wall Street ?

Those iris scanners aren't for remembering what your eyes look like, broken mirrors or making friends. That is why they are tested in war zones. Kind of hard to refuse with the barrel of a gun pointed at your face.

This whole imaginary line, sans Cuba, ain't no American soil Charlie, bullshit, is not just another Auschwitz, because the word "just" makes it sound less than evil. You can dress that crap up all you like, it still breaks all the rules, conventions and good will between nations that lost millions of lives and created the Geneva Conventions and whole raft of other agreements that were agreed upon by all signatories to put an end to genocide, deprivation of human dignity and the right to receive equal legal representation within a fair and just system.

Any dimwit who thinks giving up ones liberty will prevent imaginary bogey men is already a scared and enslaved fool. How about I chuck you down a well for your own safety, don't like the sound of it, good! Putting humans in dog cages, real and made out of wire and steel, or virtual where your daily life is monitored and subjected to profiling and analysis, is a hell like that created by the Nazis when Mr Hitler was so hopped up on Speed and Testosterone he thought he alone could dictate how every individual on Earth should live. Now Germans are a wonderful and loving people, which just goes to show how tyranny can frighten the wits out of anyone and cause them to stand by and do nothing while their neighbours are dragged screaming from their homes.

We are all piss week. For a year now people have watched as Syrians have been systematically tortured and killed by their own government. Russia and China are worried about their oil supply, and everyone else is worried about their wallets. Let's blame Greece for Goldman Sacks and others dressing unsecured loans up as secure loans, regulators crying that don't have any power, politicians deciding why not give the irresponsible and greedy even more cash.

We are squandering our future and meanwhile we argue and bicker. The universe runs on the rule of conservation of energy , the most efficient solution is the best. We stupid humans run on the rule of waste and inefficiency. We could use our resources wisely, take heed of our most brilliant minds, yet the fool is at the pulpit ranting mythology that proposed the world was flat for hundreds of years while the Sun (son) is a great round sphere passing overhead each day and the moon at night. Now there is nothing wrong with believing what ever you want and prescribing to some kind of religion, but that is your choice and don't for a second pretend you are a politician and have everyone's interests at heart, you really have your own interests at heart and will mislead anyone who follows so you and your backers can secure your own wealth and power. A spiritual man does not govern, for to govern in today's world you must often obscure the truth so it can not be used against you.

So you ask us to trust you, dear leaders, but are you willing to extend your trust to us? You can't even trust yourselves. How do you suppose we right this untenable situation? Kiss and make up, or at least let the children run things for a while as they at least understand how to compromise for a mutually beneficial outcome.

Oh and don't forget about those people who you have left to rot indefinitely!

They are crazy to think that all or even half people post the truth on social networks. Time to move to South America and go back to basic needs like nice food, water, shelter, and community caring of every body.

Thanks for posting.

This technology was first pioneered to map the spread of infectious disease. It is interesting to see where it is going...it was a line item in Dubyah's budget, and of course the government has dumped a lot of dough into its development, so they have to come up with some creative applications, and what better investment of the taxpayer's hard earned dollars than the prevention of terrorism?

When I think about what really goes on in this country, it makes me want to puke. People are forced to pay a portion of their income to the government, in the form of taxes, not just income taxes, but all kinds of taxes. Ostensibly, the government then takes that money and spends it for the benefit of the citizenry. It is nauseating to realize that the portion of the taxpayer's income that is forcibly removed from the fruits of the taxpayer's labor is used to wage wars around the globe and develop surveillance technology that is then used against the taxpayer.

Meanwhile, Congressional representatives are busy making obscene amounts of money off of these wars and developing technologies, hyping up the fear factor to support both the wars and the development of surveillance technologies, and then telling the taxpayer that any services the taxpayer stands to directly benefit from, ie., health care, unemployment insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Food Stamps, Education....blah, blah, blah...is what is bankrupting the nation. Really? Are we really stupid enough to believe this bullshit, because the evidence that we are being bullshitted is constantly in our faces.

Intimidation. Create fear of the possibility even though the reality of it actually becoming an effective methodology is slight. They have and will always request cool stuff from the tech sector and the techies will promise to deliver for, say, a gazillion bucks. They deliver something. The truly bad guys develop countermeasures and go unhindered. So we have a gazillion bucks spent protecting honest people from themselves and another gazillion spent on law enforcement scurrying about to verify that, indeed, they are safe from themselves.
What we actually have here is an enrichment of the 1% at the expense of the 99% in order to protect the 1% FROM the 99%. I keep hearing that times are hard. Where does the money for this come from?

Unless something huge happens (and by huge, I mean something on the scale of civil war) privacy is going to become a quaint thing that happened a long time ago, like horse-drawn carriages.

"The FBI is looking into the creation of a new application that would allow them to not only monitor on-going threats,"

That means that the FBI has probably already invented this technology and they are just looking for a way to sell it to the public.