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"Blade Runner" Eye-Scanning Lie Detector May Be Coming To A Dystopian Future Near You

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

Funded by billionaire Mark Cuban and released in 2014 by startup Converus, the "EyeDetect" examines things like pupil dilation, blink rate and other eye movements to determine whether a person is lying, reports Mark Harris of Wired, who traveled to Converus' testing center north of Seattle to check it out. 

Released in 2014 by Converus, a Mark Cuban–funded startup, EyeDetect is pitched by its makers as a faster, cheaper, and more accurate alternative to the notoriously unreliable polygraph. By many measures, EyeDetect appears to be the future of lie detection—and it's already being used by local and federal agencies to screen job applicants. -Wired


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