Re: New Singapore surveillance software can detect abnormal behaviour

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 05:22:26 MDT


On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:40:36PM -0400, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010727/tc/tech_singapore_software_dc_1.html
>
> SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore scientists have created new software which
> may beef up surveillance efforts in the future by distinguishing between a
> person's normal activities and suspicious behavior.

Interesting. Seems to be similar to a computer security system that was
suggested in a poster at the ICANN 98 neural network conference in Skövde.
They gathered system log data on users, like which programs were run and
what error messages triggered, and then clustered it with SOM-networks. If
an user changed category suddenly, that might signal that that account had
been infiltrated and was being used for nefarious ends. Ths Singapore
system sounds like something similar.

Beside the obvious transparent society/big brother applications, this might
be interested in health monitoring. I think something like this might be
useful for cryonics alarms, or for that matter in the apartments of
elderly. Having systems that can detect when something is wrong with the
users is very useful.

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