The European Union’s Security of Aircraft in the Future European Environment (SAFEE) is testing some kind of nebulous facial detection system that’ll suss out whether your expression is one of a terrorist planning on commandeering the ride or just diarrhea face.

This software will look for nervous face touching, profuse sweating and various other ticks that passengers do all the time. A guy from UCSD built a similar system, but states it only identifies people correctly 70% of the time and only under optimal conditions, which don’t exist in airplanes. Sounds foolproof! [Newscientist via Boing Boing]

Via [Gizmodo]

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