Indeed. There's a reason that polygraph tests aren't admissible as evidence - they are woefully inaccurate for the most part, and there are a lot of ways to fool the test as well. Personally, I wish they'd outlaw polygraph tests for the most part - the police use it as a way of squeezing confessions from people - even innocent ones.
I agree with you. I cant understand why the US police uses the polygraph. There is a reason why polygraphic test are not admissible ad evidence. Is there any country, except USA, which uses this method to rule out/get confession from suspects? It seems way to inexact for me. I mean, how did they come up with that 83% figure? What methods were used?
In Sweden we all get a number when we're born, and it's been that way for years. They are used in everything from tax-forms to passports and telephone accounts. You can for example use your number to order a birth certificate.
They numbers do provide a convenient way to check someones identity. But, of course, you could argue that someone (Big Brother) could use this number to get all sorts of information about a individual. And as many of the swedish government records are public this is not very hard to do.
But generally this it not considered a problem and the numbers provide so many benefits that people are willing to accept this system even though it could be a potential threat to personal integrity.
Maybe the reason swedish citizens don't object to this system is that we have been registered for centurys by the church. You can go back as a far as the 17th century (most records still exists and have been microfilmed) and look up information such as date and place of birth, siblings and ancestors.
By the way, our 'personal numbers' are made up by your birth year, birth month and day of birth. Then you have a control number. So in my case it's 821215-xxxx
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Actually it's the answer to the "The Ultimate Question of life, The Universe and Everything". The question itself is "What's 6x7?"
No. There are not three but four control digits =)
They numbers do provide a convenient way to check someones identity. But, of course, you could argue that someone (Big Brother) could use this number to get all sorts of information about a individual. And as many of the swedish government records are public this is not very hard to do.
But generally this it not considered a problem and the numbers provide so many benefits that people are willing to accept this system even though it could be a potential threat to personal integrity.
Maybe the reason swedish citizens don't object to this system is that we have been registered for centurys by the church. You can go back as a far as the 17th century (most records still exists and have been microfilmed) and look up information such as date and place of birth, siblings and ancestors.
By the way, our 'personal numbers' are made up by your birth year, birth month and day of birth. Then you have a control number. So in my case it's 821215-xxxx