Here is another fella that is working against polygraph technology.

George Maschke Antipolygraph.org ;

I see the positives and the negatives.   This one is really hard for me.   But if the technology is being used, I am going to be examining it, and potentially redeveloping something and making something new.  I have been putting together the blueprints for an android app that would analyze certain traits for deception.   There is a lot of technology available, but nothing is anywhere close to 100% accurate.  Some polygraph companies claim to have 90% accuracy.  But other’s who dispute it, like George from Antipolygraph.org say it’s much more like flipping a coin.   

How would you feel about a portable lie detector, like the “truster” if it wee closer to 100% accurate, than the current court accepted technology, that is 100 years old, with few improvements on the original invention.   But as technology improves, we get closer to 100% accurate, if you believe the studies available.

ref;   http://scholarlycommons.law.no…..ntext=jclc

One of the reasons that I have been very interested in the lie detection technology, and the development of new technology, is that the old technology that was invented a long time ago, and sparsely improved since, has a lot of potential, but it does not have a lot of realist application based on it’s faultiness.

This guy who is a retired cop, and a licensed polygraph reader has been so effective at what he does, that he has been indicted for teaching people how to easily beat lie detector tests.

Ref; Polygraph Expert Doug Williams’ intro

This is a reference to Doug Williams recent case in which he was indicted on “accusations of teaching people to cheat on lie detector tests“.

A former Oklahoma City police officer was indicted Thursday on accusations of teaching people to cheat on lie detector tests, the government announced Friday.

The 69-year-old Norman, Oklahoma, man is the owner of Polygraph.com and charged customers thousands of dollars for instructions on how to beat lie detector tests administered for federal employment suitability assessments, federal security background investigations, and internal federal agency investigations, court documents show.
There is new technology coming out, and even the military is experimenting with hand held polygraph units.

ref;  Lie detection technology and activism

While there are questions of ethics and morality as well as genuine concerns about privacy.  This is the age we are living in.  We either embrace it, and learn it, and utilize the technology, or we get left in the dark.   I personally like to be prepared for new technology.   And while I hate being filmed all of the time  (the average US citizen gets filmed around 300 times per day without even thinking about it), I do utilize DVR camera’s for my car and home, for the unfortunate situation that I may need this.  I feel the same way about lie detection.  I don’t like my privacy being violated, but there are insurance companies that utilize lie detection software on their phone calls, and there are a lot of other private and public applications for lie detection technology.

I have made a few issues public, or semi-public, where there is situations where there are two different stories, and the stories regarding a subject are so vastly different, that someone has to be lying.

I recently got into a fist fight with a relative.  I got a misdemeanor charge, and he got a misdemeanor charge.   I requested and received the discovery evidence from the prosecutor, and I have listened to the police interview both sides of the subject.   The other person claimed that I pushed him first (well, in one of his versions of the story), and I claim that he put his hands on me first.   He story changed 3 times while speaking with the police office, which is great for my experiment, because not only can I gauge a lie vs. the truth by comparing his stor(ies) to mine.  But also since he has so many stories, I can also analyze which story is more and which story is less truthful.  This will help me calibrate as I work on some software of my own.

I hope to achieve some improvement on the current technology, but none-the-less, I will continue to do R&D while I make plans to build my own Android app(s) for the purpose of lie detection.

I have a wide variety of specimens that I have captured, that I have first hand knowledge of, and I intend to use these statements and conversations to calibrate the technology that I am working with eventually.

I really do believe that this technology will become in time close to 100% accurate, if not actually at 100%.
But as of now, there is still a lot to be desired with lie detection technology.

Just think though, if you could pull out your handy lie detector gadget during a presidential campaign speech, analyze the speech on the fly, and make a more informed decision?!   I think there is plenty of applications for this device, and it may positively serve humanity for a better future.
Stay tuned!