India’s Use of Brain Scans To Convict Is Debated

The NY Times

By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS

Published: September 14, 2008

 

     MUMBAI, India— The new technology is, to its critics, Orwellian. Others view it as a silver bullet against terrorism that could render waterboardingand other harsh interrogation methods obsolete. Some scientists predict the end of lying as we know it.

 

     Now, well before any consensus on the technology’s readiness, India has become the first country to convict someone of a crime relying on evidence from this controversial machine: a brain scanner that produces images of the human mind in action and is said to reveal signs that a suspect remembers details of the crime in question. . . Read More