But Who Watches the Watchers? Predicting Personal Behavior.

This one is right out of the film Minority Report. It's not enough to have our every move monitored in today's surveillance society. Now researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a system that can not only recognize human behaviors, but could also predict what they might do next. The Army funded research would also sound an alarm if it detects "anomalous" behaviors.

The research has been presented in a paper entitled, "Using Ontologies in a Cognitive-Grounded System: Automatic Action Recognition in Video Surveillance" and focuses on an artificial intelligence cognitive engine that automatically detects and interprets a person's actions using its surveillance feed.

The next step will be to tie the software to drones. Careful what you do, Big Data is watching.