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The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08
Round-Up A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is being rolled out in the UK. If you're trying to pull a swift one on the authorities you may find their "liar, liar, pants on fire" accusations hold water after a national... [09 May 2008]
Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats
News A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more than £330,000 is being rolled out in the UK. The Voice Risk Analyser (VRA) system will be piloted by another 15 councils following its success in seven areas of the country. [07 May 2008]
Constrained Maximum-Likelihood Detection in CDMA
White Paper In contrast, the unconstrained ML problem can be solved quite easily and is known as the decorrelating detector. Such a design criterion leads to detector structures, which are ML under the constraint assumption. [10 Apr 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News Lie detector beats benefit fraud The year was dominated by stories about government-held personal data, whether that was ID information or what people choose to throw away. Undoubtedly, the fall-out from HM Revenue & Customs' loss of two discs... [19 Dec 2007]
Stories of the year
News Lie detector beats benefit fraud But one of the biggest stories of 2007 - and not just in the tech world - turned up in October when two password-protected CDs containing the records of 25 million child benefit recipients were sent unrecorded and... [14 Dec 2007]
Stories of the Month - September 2007
News News that a successful pilot of lie detector voice recognition technology is being used to combat benefit fraud by Harrow Council in Greater London, was an example of innovative use of tech to tackle a common problem. [28 Sep 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment Lie detector beats benefit fraud sorry I was speeding my pregnant wife has to go to hospital NOW please don't book me" works with a police officer but doesn't work on speed cameras, how do you explain to a lie detector that you are stressed because... [07 Sep 2007]
Lie detector beats benefit fraud
News A Harrow Council statement said local authorities have a duty to catch fraudsters due to the financial restraints they face and the lie detector technology is "another tool to help achieve this goal". [03 Sep 2007]
'Scrap lie detectors for benefit claimants'
News Benefit claimants should not be made to take lie detector tests because the technology's accuracy has not been scientifically proven, according to the Trade Union Congress (TUC). Barber said the overwhelmingly majority of claimants are honest and... [04 May 2007]
Lie detector tech to snare benefit cheats?
News Benefit cheats could be caught out thanks to the introduction of new lie-detecting tech, according to the government. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today announced a pilot of the technology by Harrow Council which will use voice risk... [05 Apr 2007]
Lie detector software to check for email fibs
News Software designed to sift through emails and pinpoint lies and deceit by picking up on the writer's tone is one of the latest developments from SAS Institute. SAS claims its product, which is due to be launched this week, is capable of running an... [21 Jan 2002]
Sun: It doesn't shine anymore
News Chief executive Scott McNeally said: "The economy looks like a Bill Clinton lie detector test rather than a sine wave at the moment. Sun revealed profit for the third quarter ended 1 April was down 43 per cent on the last quarter. [20 Apr 2001]
