The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found itself embroiled in a rather odd situation involving polygraph tests. In April, it confirmed to NPR that it was using these tests to catch personnel ...

The polygraph or lie detector test has been in use for over 100 years. It has been heralded as a technological marvel that allows investigators to accurately determine when someone is lying and when ...

In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing ...

When you sit in front of a lie detector machine, you quickly realise how easy it is to tell fact from fiction. The machine, which is pre-loaded with questions from the one seeking the truth from you, ...

It used to be that the most feared instrument in the arsenal of a police investigator was the polygraph, or lie detector machine. Now the most feared thing might be a simple microphone and a laptop ...

CVS, the pharmacy company, recently settled a class-action lawsuit in which the company faced a complaint it used AI lie detector tests during job interviews — and didn’t inform prospective employees ...

Introduction: Plotting the hyperbola of deception -- "A thieves' quarter, a devil's den": the birth of criminal man -- "A vast plain under a flaming sky": the ...