US Government Intelligence Is Developing Full-Body Biometric Surveillance Systems

The following report is from the Trends Journal:

Dissidents will have to get more creative, if they want to avoid illegal government crackdowns for exercising their protest rights.

Nextgov, the corporate consortium that exists to sell tech to government agencies, is reporting on a new initiative called BRIAR (Biometric Recognition & Identification at Altitude and Range).

Think of it as a high tech briar patch meant to ensnare even the sleekest disguised rabble-rousers.

Instead of just using facial recognition, the new U.S. intelligence project headed by IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) is seeking a “whole-body” biometric approach.

There’s such a diversity of technical challenges that are trying to be addressed. This is tackling a problem that’s important for the government and for national security—but I think is underrepresented in the academic research because it’s not a topic focus area.

IARPA Program Manager Dr. Lars Ericson explained to Nextgov in an interview.

As usual, the trope of “security” cited by Ericson is weak cover for the ugly fact that intelligence agencies will likely use such technology to illegally surveil and suppress disfavored domestic political protestors.

BRIAR has an ultimate goal of “delivering an end-to-end [whole-body] biometric system capable of accurate and reliable verification, recognition, and identification of persons from elevated platforms and at distances out to 1,000 meters, across a range of challenging capture conditions,” according to a broad agency announcement released last year to underpin this work.

The software algorithm-based devices are projected to aid the intelligence community and Defense Department components in locating individuals from watchtowers or drones, especially in difficult-to-observe settings.

Ericson gave an overview of the new invasive technology:

They include things like long range and high pitch, but they also include other technical objectives that are part of the overall system—for example, being invariant to the pose and illumination and expression of the individuals that are being imaged, to not be dependent on the clothing that this person is wearing, so it is a true biometric signature that’s being extracted from the imagery, as well as an explicit goal of making sure that the systems perform equitably across diverse demographic and human body shape groups.

According to a DNI.gov press release, multiple corporate, governmental and university entities are being given grants to pursue the BRIAR project, including:

• Accenture Federal Services LLC
• Intelligent Automation, Inc.
• Kitware, Inc.
• Michigan State University
• Systems & Technology Research
• The University of Houston
• The University of Southern California.
• Carnegie Mellon University
• General Electric Research

At this point, it’s clear human rights and civil liberties groups have their own biased and spotty record when it comes to effectively and equally advocating for the protest rights of citizens in America and elsewhere.

But they at least acknowledge that self-interested and self-preserving corporate-government authoritarian powers are unfortunately succeeding in controlling and suppressing popular dissent.

Our research and community engagement show how domestic laws and international treaties are slow to respond to these intrusions or are absent altogether. Our advocacy strives to establish and ensure human rights protections, both in legal frameworks and in practice.

Notes INCLO (International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations).

A 2021 briefing on a report by INCLO on government surveillance use and abuse of facial recognition technology noted:

The indiscriminate use of Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) globally by law enforcement and other government agencies is dangerously normalizing surveillance. The full harmful impacts and effects of this technology on people’s lives are only beginning to emerge.

That full report can be read here.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

It is very evident that the introduction to social credit scores – ultimately to be linked up to the central bank digital currencies, vaccine passports, and carbon calculators – are coming rapidly, though the media will call it everything else under the sun, to justify it’s necessity. And it will get worse as this nation continues to reject the Lord and his word, and exponentially increase wickedness.

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[8] Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: [9] That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: [10] Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: [11] Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. [12] Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: [13] Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. [14] And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

Isaiah 30:8-14

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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