Verdächtiger Geruch
Der Guardian hat einen interesanten Artikel über den Einsatz von Geruchserkennung bei der Polizei.
Olfactory surveillance - the monitoring of personal odour - is on the increase. The number of dogs trained in the detection of criminal suspects and substances is growing. But dogs aren’t the only tool envisioned for the future. The Home Office is known to have funded at least one study into the feasibility of releasing swarms of trained bees to search out target odours. The US has similar plans for moths, bees, wasps and cockroaches, and Russia has cross-bred jackals with dogs for an enhanced sense of smell. Even yeast has been genetically manipulated to react to molecules of interest to the security services.
Und schließt mit der Warnung:
We are right to fear the new surveillance, even when we have nothing to hide, because it reaches beyond the rule of law, stripping us of our privacy (the right to determine the extent to which we release personal information about ourselves) and leaving us vulnerable to arbitrary state interference.