CT: EyeDetect and polygraph exams
The Judicial Branch Court Support Services Division (JBCSSD) of the State of Connecticut recently released public information indicating the EyeDetect lie detection technology is now being used for assessment and testing by Adult Sex Offender Services on a multi-year plan beginning Jan. 1, 2021. The contract calls for the state to administer 2,300 EyeDetect and polygraph exams annually.
One Converus Service Partner based in Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. George Deitchman, an expert who has evaluated and treated sex offenders for 30+ years, a polygraph examiner since 2009 and an expert and trainer in the use of EyeDetect, has successfully used EyeDetect to test sex offenders in Florida since 2017.
“I’ve used EyeDetect with a number of clients to test for specific and maintenance issues, as well as sexual histories,” said Deitchman. “While traditionally we’ve used polygraph testing, the use of a pupillometry technology like EyeDetect — and its ability to measure subject physiological responses to test questions in an entirely different way — is helpful for some clients with extraneous movement or other testing issues. In addition, EyeDetect’s automation achieves similar or better results than other methods that require an examiner to do the testing and scoring.”
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EyeDetect is even worse than a polygraph, the results of which are openly available. The raw digitized data are recorded and available to any authorized persons. Interpretations may vary, but the data are there. With EyeDetect, the data are sent to the company an analyzed by a proprietary algorithm for which no peer-reviewed accuracy studies are available.
The algorithm can be set to various levels of sensitivity. That allows for human bias, and probably means low sensitivity for law enforcement and maximum sensitivity for sex offenders. According to a company representative, the system “uses an eye tracker to record changes in pupil size along with about 100 other factors, including how fast you read the question and how fast you answer.” What are those 100 factors and how are they weighted in the algorithm? Sounds like smoke and mirrors to me.
Wired magazine published a useful article in 2018. It is worth reading for anyone interested in the subject. https://www.wired.com/story/eye-scanning-lie-detector-polygraph-forging-a-dystopian-future/
Veritas.
Ed
If they ever try and force me to do the eye test thing-ah-ma-bob, I am going to prepare for it before the test. I will simple do the Cheech and Chong “Up in Smoke” routine. My eyes will be so glazed over that they won’t read on the Rickter scale.
If they accuse me of being under the influence, I will cite the Native American act which states while on the reservation, we can partake in the Peyote. That is mostly used along the border towns as it is more of a Mexican tradition. HAHA
“EyeDetect’s automation achieves similar or better results than other methods”
PROVE IT! Where is the independent, peer-reviewed data to support that whopper?
This is how they hoodwink the easily swayed public: “We should focus on false narratives instead of reality.”
Facts should matter
I wonder what the total number of women was that had to die in the Salem witch trials before they realized they were all telling the truth. None of them were witches.