Department-secret Pentagon weapons, defense advanced research projects Agency (DARPA), each snowflake contracts for the development of its “intelligence soldiers use smartphones for health” program (Laundry), who leads an active soldier’s well-being.
DARPA announced last week that he was awarded Kryptowire, Virginia firm cyber security, a contract for $ 5.1 million in the development of a washing program that would be place of the disease, using the data it collects from smartphones soldiers during normal use.
Said the head of communications for DARPA Jared Adams “Washington post” in an email that “this program aims to develop algorithms that use the raw sensor data of the smartphone to provide continuously and real-time assessment”. This assessment will bring to light the hidden and developing problems with health.
The concept of the program for soldiers DARPA Analytics using smartphones for health program.
According to the sheet DARPA really wash that collects data from the smartphone’s camera, sensors, lights, pedometers, fingerprint sensors, microphones, thermometers and more. She is studying the movement of the eyes; your voice; the orientation of the device and GPS location; it uses face detection; it takes the images of the fingers, and he studies his finger, grabbing the paintings and hand movements and your gait. Wash is built to look for biomarkers of disease, such as sweating, trembling voice, tics of the face, racing heartbeat, decreased attention, reduced ability to reason, wrong decisions, and impulsive action, among other things.
“For example, if the user is in a state of intoxication, we found that they will interact with the device differently,” Vice President Kryptowire product, Tom Karygiannis, said. Company representatives say that it can be used to detect Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and even post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Such information will be continuously collected even in times when a soldier do not use your phone on military Affairs.The American civil liberties Union have already sounded the alarm. Senior policy analyst Jay Stanley said, “people don’t want to feel that someone is listening in on their personal life. That is going to be subject to stringent control.”
These issues may have wider implications. Kryptowire leaders say their goal is to make technology for the average smartphone users, but added that the software you need quite a bit of development before he’s ready for the market.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
