{"id":3349,"date":"2002-01-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:44","slug":"thermal-camera-may-detect-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/02\/thermal-camera-may-detect-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thermal Camera May Detect Lying&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>United Press International (UPI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2002\/01\/02\/Thermal-camera-may-detect-lying\/38281009998240\/\">reports<\/a> on the development of a new system that purports to detect lies. Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An experimental new lie detector that measures sudden flashes of heat from around the eyes may soon provide another line of defense against terrorism . . .<\/p><p>&#8220;On the other hand, when thinking about the possibility of someone with explosives in his shoes boarding a plane, given the technology&#8217;s security potential, I think most of us would want this application to be accelerated as quickly as possible,&#8221; Levine added. &#8220;We&#8217;re making advances in science, and I think the ethical issues need to be dealt with when the advances are being made. Otherwise ethics gets left behind,&#8221; he said.<\/p><p>The device consists of a high-definition thermal imaging camera the size of a shoebox. The scientists also have developed a miniaturized version of the camera, roughly the diameter of a postage stamp. Both are hooked up to a filing cabinet&#8217;s worth of computer hardware.<\/p><p>&#8220;As people lie, there is a massive increase in blood flow around the eyes, and associated with that there is sudden warming around the eyes, where the color changes to white in the thermal imaging system,&#8221; Levine explained.<\/p><p>The research team had 20 volunteers commit a mock crime and then assert innocence under experimental conditions at the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute in Fort Jackson, S.C.<\/p><p>Eight of the volunteers stabbed a mannequin and stole $20 from it, while the rest had no knowledge of the crime. The device accurately detected lying roughly 80 percent of the time, a precision level comparable to standard lie detecting polygraph tests performed by experts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the device discussed in the article were 80% accurate, the extremely low base rate of terrorists would make it completely useless as a tool to screen airline passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Press International (UPI) reports on the development of a new system that purports to detect lies. Excerpt: An experimental new lie detector that measures sudden flashes of heat from around the eyes may soon provide another line of defense against terrorism . . . &#8220;On the other hand, when thinking about the possibility of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[295,376],"class_list":{"0":"post-3349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-other","7":"tag-dodpi","8":"tag-thermal-imaging","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}