White House Considers Plan To Spy On ‘Mentally Ill’ In Effort To Stop Shootings

By Tom Knighton

Not too long ago, I wrote about a proposal to use Google’s Echo or Amazon’s Alexa devices to listen in on people in a misguided effort to curb mass shootings. It’s a concerning thing, the idea that the smart devices you purchased to make your life just a bit easier may well end up informing on you to the federal government.

It’s also not the end of the effort, either. It seems your phone and smartwatch may be asked to join the effort as well.

After the recent shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, Ivanka Trump asked those advocating for the new agency whether it could produce new approaches to stopping mass shootings, said one person familiar with the conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss them.

Advisers to Wright quickly pulled together a three-page proposal — called SAFEHOME for Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by Helping Overcome Mental Extremes — which calls for exploring whether technology including phones and smartwatches can be used to detect when mentally ill people are about to turn violent.

Using his personal connections to Trump and others, Wright has pushed his HARPA proposal to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms