Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

The Eyes Have It

Posted by michael on from the do-you-still-love-me dept.

Feelgood writes: "Yahoo is carrying a Reuters report that thermal imaging may be used in airports to detect liars. Shouldn't be a problem that 1 out of 4 liars will get away and 1 in 10 innocents will be incorrectly nailed." There's a UPI story about the lie detector possibilities and a blurb in Nature. From the UPI article, the inventor has a good appreciation of the ethical considerations. Will anyone else care?

1 of 320 comments (clear)

  1. Ethics Schmethics by istartedi · · Score: 1, Troll

    You ask somebody if they are going to hijack the plane. If their face lights up on the monitor, you give them a full search. If their face doesn't light up on the monitor, you base your decision on other factors. Would you prefer that we racially profile everyone? I know I would, since all the perps are young Middle Eastern males, but that will never happen because there are too many PC wackos in this country who think that searching people who fit the profile is the moral equivalent of lynching people on a hot Summer night in Mississippi.

    --
    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?