 Your eyes don't lie. It's why the chief executive officer of Convores, Todd Mickelson says more companies and governments are moving towards I detect a technology that uses a person's eye behavior to determine whether or not they're lying While the technology has been around for almost six years It was only launched in Trinidad and Tobago on Tuesday Some of these clients particularly our government clients are running tens of thousands of tests because they use it as a Pre-employment screening tool things such as ties to organized crime or drug cartels a history of drug use Maybe a history of other related crimes such as stealing or accepting bribes C&T is the third country in the Caribbean region to begin utilizing I detect Mickelson says agencies in Jamaica and Barbados have been Utilizing this method of testing in its employment process Already he says many local private companies have expressed interest in the technology In fact, he says government agencies are also looking to invest There are a couple of groups within the government that have expressed interest and we'll be meeting with them later this week to get more into the details of that both from a screening standpoint of vetting Employees but also from the standpoint of having a more effective tool for doing Investigations C&C three news and the stands legislation is expected to go before cabinet soon to allow technologies like I detect to Incorporated into the public sector, but how does it work? I detect measures changes in pupil diameter eye movement reading behavior among other things as Participants answer several questions using an infrared camera and algorithm the participants credibility scores calculated The results are then uploaded to a web server for immediate scoring only those authorized can see if the person has lied or not There have been instances where I detect was wrong now We have a lot of clients that use I detect in conjunction with polygraph Because they measure different things If you give someone a test on the same topic For polygraph and I detect and you get the same result. There is a 99 percent Probability that you got it right Mickelson says people have tried to cheat the test and you wouldn't believe what they do We're measuring changes in cognitive load You have to think harder to tell a lie than to tell the truth when you think harder your eyes dilate the more common approach To try to beat it is They will do things like take drugs beforehand to cause their eyes to not respond and We have done hundreds of thousands of these tests and so we have a bank of of data Well, we put I detect to the test we were told to write down a number between two and ten This is the number we chose Then we were asked several true false questions in relation to the number we selected in the end the machine did not lie We however were given this but we took a poll chance cnc3 news