A Cape Breton judge has ruled that a videotaped police statement given by a man charged with sexually assaulting a girl at a ...

Research is identifying alternative methods to the polygraph, but some doubt whether true lie detection is possible.

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Police call lie detector tests an effective tool. However, one lawmaker doesn’t want police to use them on sex assault victims in Utah ever again, even if the victim wants it.

A Tribune-ProPublica investigation found that one man felt compelled to drop his sexual assault complaint against his ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found itself embroiled in a rather odd situation involving polygraph tests. In April, it confirmed to NPR that it was using these tests to catch personnel ...

Customs and Border Protection spent millions of taxpayer dollars in recent years on polygraph exams for job applicants who admitted to disqualifying criminal acts or drug use on their applications or ...

A recent polygraph test taken in Orange County, Calif., has brought the validity of polygraphs — also called “lie detector tests” — into question. Even though some police departments and ...

The polygraph is not a lie detector but rather an instrument that measures a person’s physiological changes to questions posed by the examiner. An elevated physiological response to a particular ...

Nova Scotia's Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced on Wednesday that investigators have conducted polygraph interviews as part of the effort to determine what happened to Lilly and Jack ...

Federal agencies have stepped up their efforts over the past few weeks to find potential leakers, and some — like the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense — are ...