In the U.S constitutional complaint about right against self-incrimination. But if it worked well it would be too useful to let that right stand, so I'm sure the courts would decide it was not covered by the right.
I'm sure they'd apply the same thing to it as they did with polygraphs.
If the memory monitor was shown to be 95% accurate in some study I'm not so sure you would be allowed to get out of it.
It will never be easy. This kind of tech will rely on the subjects thinking of that memory. And you can always, well, choose not to. Or even corrupt the memory deliberately by imagining things.
Isn't it very hard to "not think about it" when required to not think about it ?
It's a skill that you can practice through meditation. But false-memories and fabricated memories will shoot this idea down long before that stuff comes into play. Memory is no where near reliable enough to be used as evidence like that.
Witness statements are used right now, and they're memory filtered through people's perceptions and desires; potentially way worse.
Correct - and they're now gradually having less and less reliability assigned to them, which is good.
You don't choose anything. I'm finding it hard that anyone can think otherwise with research such as the article indicating function before awareness.
Probably at least long enough to get the same result without the currently necessary surgery.
Feels like a waste of time. Just make a memory dump and analyze it offline.