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The Ultimate Invasion of Privacy

Scientists claim that MRI scanning equipment typically applied in medical diagnostic circumstances can be used to detect truthfulness, or racism, and determine identity. Changes in brain activity of those undergoing the process is interpreted and assigned meaning. The study of brain patterns is also believed to reveal if a person is familiar with a location.

Mind reading by MRI scan raises 'mental privacy' issue, Telegraph (UK), June 9, 2008