Would you comply if, in order to receive federal benefits (VA, SSI, SSDI, Medicare), you were required to use this monitoring technology?

CPO Andy Carrillo, MS — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:04:34 -0400

“The National Institutes of Health 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).”
http://freebeacon.com/issues/feds-developed-app-that-predicts-psychological-status-of-americans/

Is there also the possibility that beneficiaries may be deemed 'incompetent' and require the appointment of a fiduciary to manage all their finances?
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-veteran-will-be-appointed-fiduciary-benefits-purposes.html

Feds Developed App That Predicts ‘Psychological Status’ of Americans

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 inve

Response by PO1 John Miller made Sep 26 at 2015 6:00 AM

PO1 John Miller — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 06:00:57 -0400

NO. I cannot see how this would not be a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Sep 26 at 2015 6:35 AM

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel — Sat, 26 Sep 2015 06:35:03 -0400

Hasn't there been several Science Fiction Movies and Books written about this already? Hell they want to hook me up with an Auto Inject system that gives me a Push a Happy Juice when I become that "Cranky Old Man" I'm not going to argue. LOL.

Response by CSM Charles Hayden made Sep 27 at 2015 1:16 AM

CSM Charles Hayden — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 01:16:52 -0400

CPO Andy Carrillo, Yes, Inwould comply, anything I can do to assist others has been a lifetime goal!