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recycled news -- Brain "lie-detectors" for big brother (I have seen this before months ago I think)
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 08:52:14 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:23:50 -0400 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] Brain "lie-detectors" for big brother (I have seen this before months ago I think)
(I have seen this before months ago I think)
You mean this one? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:13:21 -0500 Subject: [IP] Please place your brain on the ink pad and then roll it slowly to the right: From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> To: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Message-ID: <BA713C61.31748%dave () farber net> Please place your brain on the ink pad and then roll it slowly to the right: A new technology called "brain fingerprinting," <http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=594&ncid=594&e=2& ;u=/nm/20030211/hl_nm/brain_fingerprinting_dc> which works by analyzing the spikes in electrical activity in the brain when it responds to something it recognizes, may someday become the next big thing in intelligence gathering. "From a scientific perspective, we can definitively say that brain fingerprinting could have substantial benefits in identifying terrorists or in exonerating people accused of being terrorists," says Lawrence Farwell, the neuroscientist who developed the technique. Brain fingerprinting has already been used to help solve at least two murder cases. Still, skeptics dismiss it as ineffective. "It's pure snake oil," Barry Steinhardt, who directs a technology program for the American Civil Liberties Union, told Reuters. "There's no evidence you can determine evil intent or anything else from brain fingerprinting. It's the 21st century version of the lie detector test, which also doesn't work very well." -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer sethf () sethf com http://sethf.com Anticensorware Investigations - http://sethf.com/anticensorware/ Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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