Can a machine read your mind?

It sounds like science fiction, but politicians, lawyers and advertisers are falling over themselves to buy into the latest scientific discovery: brainjacking. Soon our secret desires and not so innocent thoughts could become public knowledge.

it is also a Pandora’s box: across the world, scientists are using this kind of technology to prise open our minds, to fathom our voting preferences, our guilty thoughts, our shopping desires, even the words we are thinking. Already their activities are stealthily changing our world

an Indian court found a young woman guilty of murder based, in part, on evidence of “guilty knowledge” revealed by her brain waves.

believes that American judges are on the verge of making scanning tests admissible – despite questions over their accuracy.