Re: Mikey Aquino Wimps Out Re: Mouth Almighty To Make Ass Of Himself

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:17:46 GMT, Bookman <thebookman@kc.rr.comNULL> wrote:

That wasn't "news"


No, it was news.

Here's some more:

ACLU objects as two companies offer 'mind reading' technology to government 

Raw Story | June 28 2006

The American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has filed a
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the primary American
security agencies for information relating to the use of "cutting-edge
brain-scanning technologies" on suspected terrorists, RAW STORY has learned.

Two private companies have announced that they will begin to offer "lie
detection" services using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), as
early as this summer. fMRI can produce live, real-time images of people's
brains as they answer questions, view images, listen to sounds, and respond
to other stimuli.

These companies are marketing their services to federal government agencies,
including the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the National
Security Agency and the CIA, and to state and local police departments.

"There are certain things that have such powerful implications for our
society -- and for humanity at large -- that we have a right to know how
they are being used so that we can grapple with them as a democratic
society," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and
Liberty Project. 

Equally worrisome to the group is the fact that experts in the field have
told the ACLU that the science to back up any reliable use of fMRI as a "lie
detector" or "mind reader" simply does not exist. At most, correlations have
been observed between certain brain patterns and particular, highly
controlled behaviors produced in laboratory experiments.

Experts also note that these early experiments on a few American college
students are a long way from real-world settings, involving individuals in
widely varying situations and with widely varying cultures, intelligence
levels and states of mind. 

"This technology must not be deployed until it is proven effective -- and we
are a long way away from that point, according to scientists in the field,"
said Steinhardt. "What we don't want is to open our newspapers and find that
another innocent person has been thrown into Guant�namo because
interrogators have jumped to conclusions based on a technology no one
understands very well." 

  
http://infowars.com/articles/bb/mind_reading_tech_aclu_objects_sale_to_gov.htm