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ZDNet: Can 'Brain Fingerprints' Protect Us from Terrorists? - [Brain fingerprinting] has been touted as being able to accurately identify trained terrorists before they can board planes or even enter the country. By David Coursey.
Center for an Informed America: Would You Mind If We Fingerprint Your Brain? - Editorial suggesting that "brain fingerprinting" technology would be used to the detriment of the people by Dave McGowan.
ZDNet: Future Forensics: Warrant to Search Your Brain - Electroencephalographic responses and brain fingerprinting--we have a warrant to search your brain. By Dan Brekke.
Register: Brain-scans Can Defeat Terrorism, InfoSeek Founder Claims - Steve Kirsch... reckons that the relevant technology companies could deliver a working system of brain fingerprinting databases and a companion retina scanning system for (supposedly anonymous) identification reference in something like ninety days' time.
Farwell Brain Fingerprinting - Technology for crime investigation using to detect P300 brain wave responses to familiar sights by a suspect, by developer Dr. Larry Farwell.
Identifying Terrorists Before They Strike - Paper by Steve Kirsch proposing the compilation of a "brain fingerprinting" database to identify terrorists before they strike.
U.S. News: Truth and Consequenses - Article about "brain fingerprinting" being used to exonerate Terry Harrington of the murder of police captain John Schweer in 1977. [Full text requires payment]
InFairfield: The Truth Detector - The day after Fairfield resident Larry Farwell gave a public lecture on his new "Brain Fingerprinting" technology, he found out he was wanted by the CIA. By Sally Peden.
Forensic-Evidence.com: "Brain Fingerprinting" - Is It a Reliable Tool? - Reaction to brief summary of the technology by Lawrence Farwell.
Forensic-Evidence.com: Brain Fingerprinting Fails First Court Test in Iowa - Evidence is admitted, but fails to convince.

Wikipedia Articles

Brain fingerprinting - "Brain fingerprinting" is a controversial proposed investigative technique that measures recognition of familiar stimuli by measuring electrical brain wave responses to words, phrases, or pictures that are presented on a computer screen. Brain fingerprinting was invented by Lawrence Farwell.
Lawrence Farwell - Dr Lawrence Farwell is the inventor of brain fingerprinting which utilizes a technology that he developed, MERMER. He was formerly a research associate at Harvard University and is currently the chairman and Chief Scientist of Brain Fingerprinting Laboratories, Inc.