Privacy & Technology: Civil Rights and Neuroscience

[INRM]

Private Companies Announce Plans To Market fMRI & Software for use in Interrogation
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/biotech/29125res20070321.html

Two private companies have announced plans to market software that purportedly allows users to detect deception using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). So far there is little proof that such high-tech, brain-scanning lie detectors would be any better than polygraph, which has been repeatedly shown to be ineffective. However, since fMRI scanners take a dynamic picture of the living brain, its use for lie detection and interrogation purposes raises the specter of the government attempting to deploy this technology to "read your mind," whether or not its efficacy has been proven.

Not suprizingly fMRI technology is being marketed for both public and government use for use in interrogations, and lie-detection.


INRM
I'm really not sure if this belongs under politics, or science,math,medicine and technology, but nonetheless it is an issue worth discussing.