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LPisGoodtoday at 7:56 PM1 replyview on HN

No. This is the philosophical basis of the fifth amendment.


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lovichtoday at 9:11 PM

If such technology actually existed I don’t think the fifth would cover it without a SCOTUS ruling. You have to actively plead the fifth to invoke it. A machine that could just read your thoughts would get around that the same way they got around the fourth by the interpretation that any information you exchange with a third party is no longer protected, in a world where refusing to ever do that would leave you destitute.

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