“Mind-reading” Security Scanner, To Enhance Security Measures At Airports

With a unique invention in mind, US these days, is busy testing a security scanner which reportedly can read the mind of the persons. This “mind-reading” security scanner, named “Malintent” basically looks for the non-verbal cues in the body to foresee whether the person intends to cause any harm to the other passengers. 

The system, which can also prove vital to cut queues at the airport, basically determines and tests the temperature, heart rate and respiration of the passengers as they walk through an archway, through the use of various sensors and scans. 

However, the system is being criticized, for it can be said to be doing an act of invasion of privacy, since it studies a person’s vital signs for non-medical reasons. 

The system, which has been invented by Human Factors division of the Homeland Security's directorate for science and technology, is also part of a mobile laboratory called Future Attribute Screening Technology (Fast). 

“It does not predict who you are and make a judgment; it only provides an assessment in situations. It analyses you against baseline stats when you walk in the door, it measures reactions and variations when you approach and go through the portal,” reported Bob Burns, Malintent's project leader. 

As for the concerns related to privacy of the passengers, Mr Burns said that once the person passes through the Fast portal, the records would be deleted. 

“The system is in no way associated with the TSA and there were no plans to deploy these experimental programs to US airports at this time,” commented a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which controls US airport security.