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The Washington Post reports that lying may soon become a lost art as our digital, data-hoarding culture means that more and more evidence is piling up to undermine our lies. "The research shows the way lies are really uncovered is by comparing what someone is saying to the evidence," says Tim Levine,"and with all these news analytics that can be done, it's going to enable lie detection in a way that was previously impossible." For example in Pennsylvania, police are prosecuting a woman who claimed she was sexually assaulted earlier this year after data from her Fitbit didn't match up with her story, Just like you can Google a fact to end an argument, instant messaging programs that archive digital conversations make it easy to look back and see exactly who said what -- and if it matches up with what a person is saying now. "Lying online can be very dangerous," says Jeff Hancock. "Not only are you leaving a record for yourself on your machine, but you're leaving a record on the person that you were lying to."
Even more alarming for liars is the incorporation of lie detector technology into the facial recognition technology. Researchers claim video-analysis software can analyze eye movement successfully to identify whether or not a subject is fibbing 82.5 percent of the time. The new technology heightens surveillance capabilities—from monitoring actions to assessing emotions—in ways that make an individual ever more vulnerable to government authorities, marketers, employers, and to any and every person with whom we interact. "We must understand that—at the individual level and with regard to interpersonal relations—too much truth and transparency can be harmful," says Norberto Andrade. "The permanent confrontation with a verifiable truth will turn us into overly cautious, calculating, and suspicious people."
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday July 10 2015, @01:20PM
"And it gets worse if you start dealing with people that deliberately pollute the source of information with a lot of random stuff that's not even intended to be taken seriously. "
Hmm, I'm having trouble finding anything on the internet that DOESN'T fit that description. Maybe they should do a test run on a few political sites, it could be helpful to know which politicians were telling the truth....(even more fun run it on a religious forum....it should produce a result similar to this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMegqgGORY [Liars Paradox])
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @02:02PM
That's too easy. Everyone can program that:
(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday July 10 2015, @06:54PM
It really should be accessible to the public though.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @10:30PM
Public
bool isLying(Politician p)
{
If (lips.moving)
return true;
Else
return true;
}
(Score: 2) by tibman on Saturday July 11 2015, @01:33AM
Accessing p.lips.moving could result in a null reference exception and throw instead of returning a proper boolean response. (assuming that lips is a property of p and not a variable of an outer scope)
Laymans: If the politician didn't have lips then this would crash : )
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