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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: 4, Insightful) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday July 10 2015, @02:01PM
" lying may soon become a lost art "
The end of all political and religious organizations worldwide. All of our cultures are based upon one lie or another. And they have a millennium of practice at using facts and accurate statistics to lie.
And since when did 'facts' dissuade people? Politicians routinely lie, and yet even when solid evidence to the contrary is presented, it is considered false, or faked, a notable example would be the Obama birth certificate debate. Even when they got what they asked for, it was immediately declared to be a fake because it did not support their false allegations, and no amount of evidence can convince them otherwise.
A program like this will just be assumed/accused of being wrong regardless of how accurate it is. So, the end of lying? Not fucking likely.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @04:03PM
A program like this will just be assumed/accused of being wrong regardless of how accurate it is
Unless it is politically convenient.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Most of us would consider a blow job sexual relations but apparently he didnt...
Your bias is democrat. I can live with that. But what if the other side was right about what they were asking for? Does it mater to follow the rules? Or are they just guidelines until someone decides they are rules?
Sometimes 'facts' are not facts but beliefs or ambiguous. Sort of like 'this statement is true. the previous statement is false'. It is not exactly a fact.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday July 10 2015, @04:58PM
"Your bias is democrat."
No, my bias is moderate to slightly liberal. At this point in history it is probably best represented by the Democratic party, but show me a Republican with good ideas and I would jump ship in a hurry. I truly miss the days when both parties consisted of liberals and conservatives. That allowed them to compromise and work together much more than they do now. (yes, I am old)
"But what if the other side was right about what they were asking for? Does it mater to follow the rules? Or are they just guidelines until someone decides they are rules?"
As far as the birthers go, if they were right that would be another thing, but they weren't and they still argue about it in the face of facts (and yet, they don't mind Cruz was born in Canada, go figure).
""I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Most of us would consider a blow job sexual relations but apparently he didnt..."
Clinton was a total gas. I still can't convince my wife a BJ isn't sex, Slick Willie was a decent president, but I would of respected an honest answer a lot more than the lame attempts to justify it, and man, they were lame.
I judge presidents by how well I have prospered under them. Making Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr, Clinton, and Obama all decent. Extremism on either side is counter-productive and harmful. We need a socially liberal, fiscally conservative candidate. (When I was but a young lad, we called them moderates) But a REAL fiscal conservative, ALL of the fiscal conservatives I have ever seen talk small government and vote big government. So might as well vote Dem, at least they don't pretend to be for smaller government.
My biggest beef with conservatives was the overt pledge to oppose anything Obama proposed regardless of if it helped the country or not. Ideology over intelligence. (except TPP and Fast Track apparently, where they voted in lockstep to give Obama MORE power after seven years of complaining he wielded power like a dictator. WTF?)
Cthulhu/Dagon 2016 Why vote for the lesser of two evils.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 10 2015, @10:12PM
...if you like NAFTA and exported jobs and a weakened economy and the increased influence of the FIRE sector. [wikipedia.org]
Perot's single-issue campaign had the right agenda for its time.
I judge presidents by how well I have prospered under them.
Must be nice to be you.
Too bad about all those USAians who had good-paying manufacturing jobs when Clinton came in and didn't when he cycled out.
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s/would of/would've
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Friday July 10 2015, @05:55PM
It will become something available only to the rich and powerful, who can flood TV networks with their own version and hire propaganda experts to frame their lies so that the victims will want to believe them. They are routinely getting away with it now. Pick your own favorite examples.
Meanwhile, the lies to evade unjust laws ("I've never heard of the Underground Railroad, and this man's a freeman anyway!") will become impossible.