US government wants to use machines to constantly monitor up to 5 million employees

[MatheusSanzo]

The US government is planning to crack down on potential leakers and threats with a detailed personnel-monitoring system that could go into place later this year, according to the Associated Press. The system would reportedly tap into a wide variety of government databases — including military records, licenses, and local law enforcement reports — and reach out to private credit agencies as well to allow workers' behaviors to be continuously analyzed for anything unusual.

 

The monitoring system may launch at select government agencies this September and be operational at all agencies by September 2016, according to the AP. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has already floated such a system when speaking with lawmakers, reportedly saying last month that "What we need is a system of continuous evaluation where when someone is in the system and they're cleared initially, then we have a way of monitoring their behavior, both their electronic behavior on the job as well as off the job." It will apparently be a costly program.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/10/5490772/us-wants-continual-monitoring-system-security-clearance-workers

 

They are trying to prevent more leaks, but it's that old history... who is monitoring the monitoring machine?

[ZetZet]

Employees? I'm fine with it.

[Nineshadow]

Who needs monitoring machines when people would be afraid of making mistakes in front of the lord GabeN?

All hail GabeN!

[epeglab_1_]

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/10/5490772/us-wants-continual-monitoring-system-security-clearance-workers

 

They are trying to prevent more leaks, but it's that old history... who is monitoring the monitoring machine?

 

It monitors itself

 

# PERSONOFINTREST

[Oshino Shinobu]

Next decision: "Just monitor everything!"

[ZetZet]

Next decision: "Just monitor everything!"

fine with that too, i have nothing to show though 

[MatheusSanzo]

Aaand what about possible leaks from people that are monitoring the "monitoring machines" ?

We need a machine to monitore the monitoring machine, and another machine to monitore the machine monitoring the monitoring machine and we need another machine to...

[epeglab_1_]

Even google knows

 

[Nineshadow]

Even google knows

.ca

Aha!!

[Dr_Orpington]

Employees... Fine.

Me... Canada here I come!

[mr moose]

The more I hear news like this the less I feel we are heading to a star trek type future and more to an eon flux type scenario.  I feel very sad for my children, I personally might escape some of the BS that seems to plague humanity but they are going to cop it right in the freedoms.

[Misanthrope]

I was fully expecting this to read "US government wants to use machines to take over the world"

[mr moose]

I was fully expecting this to read "US government wants to use machines to take over the world"

that's what the drones are for.

[Ertman]

Who is monitoring the politicians?

[wpirobotbuilder]

We need a machine to monitore the monitoring machine, and another machine to monitore the machine monitoring the monitoring machine and we need another machine to...

Recursion!

[Hidden Orange]

Hmm... This reminds me of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and 1984... Welp, time to move to Canada, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, or Switzerland.