It's All in Your Head: Neurotechnological Lie Detection and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments
Developments in Mental Health, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 2009
76 Pages Posted: 22 Feb 2011
Date Written: January 1, 2009
Abstract
Advances in lie detection technology raise important and tricky new legal questions, especially in terms of criminal procedure. This article examines several types of brain-scan-based lie detection, both those being sold now and those that are still several years away from in-the-field use, in terms of the protections of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Focusing on the most developed of the technologies - FMRI - the article concludes that proper use of such lie detectors violates neither the Fourth nor Fifth Amendments.
Keywords: fMRI, lie detection, criminal procedure, NTLD
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