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Feds Developed App That Predicts ‘Psychological Status’ of Americans
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 9/25/15 | Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 09/25/2015 6:05:36 PM PDT by markomalley

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a system that can predict the “psychological status” of users with smartphones and hope to private companies to bring the invention to the market.

The technology appeared on a list of NIH inventions published in the Federal Register that are now available to be licensed by private companies. The government allows companies to license inventions resulting from federal research in order to expedite their arrival on the marketplace.

The system uses smartphones to ask people how they are doing mentally during the day and based on the results can “deliver an automated intervention” if necessary.

“The NIH inventors have developed a mobile health technology to monitor and predict a user’s psychological status and to deliver an automated intervention when needed,” according to the notice published Wednesday. “The technology uses smartphones to monitor the user’s location and ask questions about psychological status throughout the day.”

“Continuously collected ambulatory psychological data are fused with data on location and responses to questions,” the NIH said. “The mobile data are combined with geospatial risk maps to quantify exposure to risk and predict a future psychological state. The future predictions are used to warn the user when he or she is at especially high risk of experiencing a negative event that might lead to an unwanted outcome (e.g., lapse to drug use in a recovering addict).”

The NIH said the technology has potential commercial applications for “real-time behavior monitoring” and “therapeutic delivery of an intervention via a mobile device.”

Researchers developed the system from a project that tracked the mood and cravings of drug users in Baltimore. The $8.9 million federal study sought to develop algorithms that could “automatically detect behavioral events (such as episodes of drug use or stress) without requiring self-report.”

The NIH said the app is currently being used for drug addiction interventions, but that the “inventors are also seeking to test the technology for other health applications.”

Request for comment from the NIH was not returned by press time.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 1984; bigbrother; emotions; health; nih; privacy; psi; psychologicaltesting; spying; stasi
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1 posted on 09/25/2015 6:05:36 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

Bkmrk.


2 posted on 09/25/2015 6:09:22 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: markomalley
Oh, I know what them boys are planning: instant assessment of interviewees for employment, clearances to buy firearms, and many, many more fun uses to classify us as "unfit".

The brave new world provides yet another tool to categorize and control people.

3 posted on 09/25/2015 6:13:56 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: markomalley

Try it on obozo first, see what it says ....


4 posted on 09/25/2015 6:14:05 PM PDT by Ken522
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To: markomalley
"The system uses smartphones to ask people how they are doing mentally during the day and based on the results can “deliver an automated forced involuntary intervention” if necessary."
5 posted on 09/25/2015 6:16:47 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: markomalley

Big Brother wants to guide you through your life their way..............


6 posted on 09/25/2015 6:16:52 PM PDT by Stayfree (FLUSH HILLARY OR WE ARE DOOMED!!!!)
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To: markomalley

I must have missed the part of the Constitution that made this the federal government’s business.


7 posted on 09/25/2015 6:17:28 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Chainmail

This can be used to gage the mood of people in different places and at different times, taking the temperature of the public mood. Are they getting mad enough to maybe do something. They know too much about us and we know to little about them. Knowledge is a weapon to these people.


8 posted on 09/25/2015 6:22:38 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: markomalley

Arrival of thought police (1984 book/movie) Sure, get monitored and when “they” (read as NSA, etc.), don’t like your thinking, plus they know where you are, they pick you up, saying, “Don’t worry, we will ‘fix’ you.” Suddenly, your guns are gone, stored food, if you have it, is gone since you are a ‘hoarder’, etc.., and you’re lucky if you’re still around a day later.

1984 gets closer and closer.


9 posted on 09/25/2015 6:22:59 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save you life today.))
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To: Kartographer

Ping to my post #9.


10 posted on 09/25/2015 6:24:02 PM PDT by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save you life today.))
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To: markomalley

I didn’t know I had a psychological status. Wait.... my phone is telling me I do.


11 posted on 09/25/2015 6:27:16 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: markomalley

Landru decrees you are not of the body. You must report for assimilation.


12 posted on 09/25/2015 6:38:14 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: markomalley

Mark


13 posted on 09/25/2015 7:03:23 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: markomalley

How to be an expert marksman: Shoot first; then wherever it hits, call that the target.


14 posted on 09/25/2015 7:11:09 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: markomalley

The NIH Czar of Perpetual Happiness will dispatch a drone to administer a emergency dose of Prozac.


15 posted on 09/25/2015 7:14:10 PM PDT by Captain7seas
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To: cradle of freedom

“This can be used to gage the mood of people in different places and at different times, taking the temperature of the public mood.”

They’re going to be really mad when they get to me.


16 posted on 09/26/2015 4:30:22 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: cradle of freedom
Actually, that has been the object of our Government for years now: discover and overcome any hint at all of domestic rebellion. The whole business about massive communications monitoring, the exercises conducted with our country involving Homeland Security and our armed forces, even the weird training doctrine within the army about "Tea Party insurrections" all point to a Government reorienting itself to stifle any incipient dissent.

Now that they have the technologies to support these efforts, they are rigidizing their power for now and forever.

17 posted on 09/26/2015 6:29:13 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Chainmail
Oh, I know what them boys are planning: instant assessment of interviewees for employment, clearances to buy firearms, and many, many more fun uses to classify us as "unfit".

My exact thought when I read the headline. This is a fast track to justify the taking away of our 2A rights!

18 posted on 09/26/2015 6:31:22 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Cruzin' with Cruz!)
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To: CAluvdubya
That's the whole reason for the "Universal Background Checks": once the Left pulls that one off, they will start tightening the net. Fairly soon, they will make it impossible for almost all of us to get cleared to buy - or possess - firearms.

Why do you think that is such a strongly-supported goal?

19 posted on 09/26/2015 6:48:54 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: markomalley

Who in their right mind would answer questions from an app on their psychological status throughout the day? Oh....nevermind


20 posted on 09/26/2015 9:06:38 AM PDT by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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