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What happens when your friend’s smartphone can tell that you’re lying
WaPo ^
| 10/31/14
| Gary Shapiro
Posted on 10/31/2014 8:45:14 AM PDT by Baynative
We are nearing a point where our smartphones will be able to recognize a face or voice, in real life or on-screen. And identification is only the most basic of the possibilities. Many app-makers are experimenting with software that can also analyze able to determine someones emotions or honesty just by a few facial cues.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cellphone; lying; politicians; smartphones
One thing is for sure: politics is in for a major overhaul. With every smartphone possessing a virtual lie-detector test, elected officials will need to be creative in the ways they talk to us. In fact, my fear is the most insecure and most powerful politicians will resist, and quickly seek to regulate or restrict these technologies ignoring their obvious good in a hidden but discoverable attempt to preserve their own power and half-truths.
Ready or not, technologies are quickly arriving, which allow us to assess other people to a degree of accuracy we never before imagined. While by no means a cure for Alzheimers at least in the diseases early stages facial recognition software could supplement a sufferers slowly deteriorating memory and help recall acquaintances, friends and loved ones.
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:45:14 AM PDT
by
Baynative
To: Baynative
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:45:55 AM PDT
by
Ted Grant
That was a quote, above. My apologies for not noting.
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:46:14 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
To: Ted Grant
Exactly. LOL
How tough is that?
I wouldn’t care if their phone could detect a lie.
I try not to tell them.
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:51:23 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
To: Baynative
We wouldn’t need the phones for libs. If they speak, they are lying.
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:54:35 AM PDT
by
ArtDodger
To: Baynative
Many politicians will do well because sociopaths can pass lie detector tests.
To: Baynative
Friends? How about spouses? Significant others? Should we expect divorce rates to spike?
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:55:47 AM PDT
by
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:56:06 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: ransomnote
Many politicians will do well because sociopaths can pass lie detector tests.
This. Some of them can even talk themselves into believing their own BS.
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posted on
10/31/2014 8:59:45 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: Baynative
Honey, Do these jeans make my butt look big?
To: ohiobuckeye1997
A recent commercial that cracks me up - “Do you think my sister’s prettier than me?”
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posted on
10/31/2014 9:05:10 AM PDT
by
Bob
(Violence in islam? That's not a bug; it's a feature.)
To: caligatrux; ransomnote
Take for example the sociopath who is currently our President.
The man won't take basic steps to control a deadly West Africa ebola virus (with 70% mortality rate) from entering this country.
He would look straight ahead and lie, "I love America, the American people, and our wonderful American heritage." without a blink.
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posted on
10/31/2014 9:20:19 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Baynative
Bunk.
Voice stress analysis has been around for decades. It used to be done with analog instruments. More recently, it has been computerized. But it still works (or, rather, doesn't work) about the same. If it really worked, we'd know, because everybody would be using it on politician audio.
Modern computer technology is capable of parsing facial expressions and eye movements in videos. But I don't expect that to be any more successful.
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posted on
10/31/2014 9:40:19 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: DoughtyOne
I like how this is presented as some kind of baffling enigma.
To: cynwoody
"If it really worked, we'd know, because everybody would be using it on politician audio." We can hope, can't we?
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posted on
10/31/2014 9:43:33 AM PDT
by
Baynative
(Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
To: Ted Grant
I agree. It sure must throw the Democrats into a tizzy though.
Perhaps for them, it is a baffling enigma.
This is revealed by a member of the MSM, so I guess we know why it’s seen as a big problem from their perspective huh.
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posted on
10/31/2014 9:45:28 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Dunam, Duncan, man what infections these folks brought over.)
To: knittnmom
Hi, honey. No, I’m at Bob’s helping him with something. My shirt? I took it off to help Bob change his oil. You heard a woman’s voice? Oh, that’s the tv. Don’t hold dinner for me as I might be late. Huh, your phone says I’m lying?!? No, baaaaby! But, but I loooove you! Lawyer??? Yes, honey, I’m coming home right now.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:05:05 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Baynative
Look directly at the phone and say “Listen to me, smartphone. Everything I say is a lie. I am telling the truth.”
Then wait for the self-destruct app to kick in.
Worked for Capt. Kirk anyway.
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