Link: Lie-Detection Software Could Scan E-Mail, Text Messages - Yahoo! News.
Jiminy Cricket! Is my nose growing? In the future, lawyers may be running email and text messages obtained in discovery through a new kind of software, which allegedly will scan the diction, phrasing, word choices, and verb selection to determine the likelihood that the speaker is lying. This new kind of lie detector is expected to be the product of a National Science Foundation study that suggests it may be possible to determine whether the writer of an email or text message is showing deception. It makes sense that we might change our use of language, just as our body changes physical reactions that the polygraph registers. So, be careful how you write. Somebody may be scanning you.
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