Robot Helps Police Arrest Murder Suspect

R2D2
“You have the right to remain silent…”

Yahoo! News has an Associated Press story: Robot Helps Police Arrest Murder Suspect. Note: Pictured above is Star Wars’ ‘droid’ R2D2, rather than the robot mentioned in the news story.

Patricia Cornwell used such a cybernetic device in one of her novels years ago. In the story (Putnam, 1996), Lucy, the niece of the protagonist Kay Scarpetta, has developed a robot for the FBI to be used in hostage situations.

[ISBN-0399141464 ]
Cause of Death ASIN: 0399141464

Later…
So, a question for the U.S. cyberlawyers in the audience, once a suspect has been informed of her / his rights, according to the Miranda decision, does that include the monitoring of subvocalization?

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