<story><title>Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fit2rule</author><text>I saw a demonstration of this technology a few years back, at a European military-industrial contractor for which I worked.&lt;p&gt;It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.&lt;p&gt;When I later saw that biometric information was being harvested by the same company at airports around the world, I figured - time to get a different job.  So I quit.&lt;p&gt;And now, the tech of individually-targeted assassinations is coming to market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bhouston</author><text>&amp;gt; It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if this isn&amp;#x27;t already happening in the Middle East, the unregulated and far away land we like to test all of the West&amp;#x27;s&amp;#x2F;Israel&amp;#x27;s new toys in.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fit2rule</author><text>I saw a demonstration of this technology a few years back, at a European military-industrial contractor for which I worked.&lt;p&gt;It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.&lt;p&gt;When I later saw that biometric information was being harvested by the same company at airports around the world, I figured - time to get a different job.  So I quit.&lt;p&gt;And now, the tech of individually-targeted assassinations is coming to market.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>freeflight</author><text>&amp;gt; It was being pitched as the ideal way to assassinate people in a crowd - identify them by heartbeat signature, fly a drone in to drop a small explosive package on their heads.&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of this little presentation [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;9CO6M2HsoIA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;9CO6M2HsoIA&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>