Another of Labour's "Big Brother" schemes for cutting down on benefit claims has been abandoned by the coalition government. The Department of Work and Pensions and a few local authorities had been sold on the idea that a claimant's voice on the phone could betray dishonesty, lie-detector-wise, if analysed in real time by a sophisticated program. Warnings from independent researchers about the United States software cut no ice with DWP, who spent a total of £2.4million on pilot projects at JobCentre Plus and with various local authorities.
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