Total body-odor awareness: latest DARPA anti-terror initiative?

Xeni Jardin 1:09 pm Thu Dec 26, 2002

Smell ya later! From Secrecy News:

Talk about Total Information Awareness. Now the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to find out how to identify
particular individuals by their genetically-determined odor.

DARPA is "soliciting innovative proposals to (1) determine whether
genetically-determined odortypes can be used to identify specific
individuals, and if so (2) to develop the science and enabling
technology for detecting and identifying specific individuals by
such odortypes."

See DARPA's presolicitation notice for the "Odortype Detection
Program," December 13, here (thanks to WMA).

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