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Pentagon Wants To Spot Illnesses By Monitoring Soldiers’ Smartphones

Imagine that your smartphone’s camera, microphone and motion sensors were monitoring you for signs of illness. That’s the future envisioned by scientists at the Pentagon’s secretive weapons development arm, where such a system is being built to keep tabs on deployed U.S. service members.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Thursday that it has awarded a $5.1 million contract to the Fairfax, Va.-based cybersecurity company Kryptowire to develop what DARPA calls the “Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health” program, or WASH for short. The app would be used to spot diseases based on data that it collects from a person’s smartphone.

Tom Karygiannis, Kryptowire’s vice president of product, said he hopes the technology can one day broaden access to health care by spotting health problems before a person visits a doctor or nurse. “Ultimately, this could mean better treatment, cost savings and making treatment available to more people,” he said.

But the idea has privacy advocates spooked. MORE

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Beat the Boss, Fight Against Mobile Phones in Prisons
Take a look around you… Mobile phones – everyone has one.

From the toddler on their parents’ phone watching a downloadable cartoon, to a teenager keeping in contact with their friends through social media, to the person reading their newspaper online, or an elderly person playing a crossword game on line

The number of mobile phone users in 2018 is already past the five billion mark. That is around 68% of the population worldwide who has use of a mobile phone.

There is a well-documented article from The New York Times, some years ago, that stated, “more people in the world today have access to a mobile phone than a clean toilet.”


In fact, there are very few groups of society that don’t have access to mobile phones

• The images that we see of migrants arriving in precarious boats, once landed safely, phone or text their family on their mobile phone.

• Images of people marching and protesting over poverty, taking photographs on their mobile phone

• Images from war torn scenes, people with mobile phones

• Images from natural disasters, people with mobile phones

• African herdsman in full tribal wear in the middle of the bushveld, chatting on their mobile ...MORE WITH VIDEO

https://americansecuritytoday.com/beat-boss-fight-cell-phones-prisons-multi-video/