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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by ngcazz on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:56AM (#18352411)
Forgive me for being thick, but is your point that we'd need to have a politician's insight to understand the decision?
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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by roenxi on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:59AM (#18352424)
To paraphrase, the question was "why is this legal when we all know it won't work?" and the answer was "we aren't the people who write the laws".
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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by sbhn on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:19AM (#18352826)
Its legal when a whole bunch of suits standing behind the politician who uses there media priveledge to amplify an issue, are able to syphon without scrutiny, as many tax paying dollars as possible.
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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by stochastic_monk on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:56AM (#18353415)
It’s not so much about the fact that taxes are levied as that there is a lack of accountability for how it’s used.
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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by sambull on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:35AM (#18353718)
It's real easy to attach a 'hot issue'/ buzzword to a blackbox that allows the security forces to do do whatever they want and get yourself sweet defense funding [0]

[0] https://slate.com/technology/2013/04/dowsing-for-bombs-maker...

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Re:An AI Lie Detector Is Going to Start Questioning Traveler... by ngcazz on Thursday November 01, 2018 @06:23AM (#18352517)
Makes sense! Thanks.
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