{"id":660,"date":"2004-02-19T04:59:20","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T09:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/papers_please_brain_fingerprin\/"},"modified":"2004-02-19T04:59:20","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T09:59:20","slug":"papers_please_brain_fingerprin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/papers_please_brain_fingerprin\/","title":{"rendered":"Papers Please; Brain Fingerprinting"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple notable items gleaned from TalkLeft<\/a> which illustrate what can happen if Americans are vigilant.
\nFirst, there’s the case of Dudley Hiibel<\/a>, a man who, under no suspicion of wrong doing, was arrested for refusing to produce his “papers” when a police officer demanded that he furnish an ID. Hiibel’s case will be argued next month at the Supreme Court. More details are available at his website.
\nSecond, I discovered “brain fingerprinting.” What is brain fingerprinting<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Brain fingerprinting works by measuring and analyzing split-second spikes in electrical activity in the brain when it responds to something it recognizes.
\nFor example, if a suspected murderer was shown a detail of the crime scene that only he would know, his brain would involuntarily register that knowledge. Under [promoter Lawrence] Farwell’s system, that brain activity is picked up through electrodes attached to the suspect’s scalp and measured by an electroencephalograph (EEG) as a waveform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, even if there’s some scientific justification for this method, it’s fraught with danger. Nonetheless, Dr. Farwell continues to push for it to be used in criminal proceedings<\/a>. Something worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple notable items gleaned from TalkLeft which illustrate what can happen if Americans are vigilant. First, there’s the case of Dudley Hiibel, a man who, under no suspicion of wrong doing, was arrested for refusing to produce his “papers” when a police officer demanded that he furnish an ID. Hiibel’s case will be argued […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}