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EyeDetect Marketer Converus Spends Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Lobbying Federal Agencies

Intercept investigative reporter Daniel Boguslaw reports on lobbying efforts by Converus Inc., which is attempting to market its EyeDetect “lie detector” to the federal government. Converus claims that EyeDetect is 88 to 90 percent accurate, a claim that is not supported by any independent peer-reviewed research. Excerpt: Read the rest of the story here. Data …

A Critical Examination of Converus Inc.’s Pseudoscientific “EyeDetect” Lie Detector

In “An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future,” Wired science writer Mark Harris investigates “EyeDetect,” a new scientifically unproven lie detector being hawked as a replacement for the old scientifically unproven polygraph. Converus Inc. of Lehi, Utah, which markets EyeDetect, claims without proof that it can detect lies with 86% accuracy. Mark Harris …