  Recent reports reveal that violent extremists are trying to obtain insider
positions that may increase the impact of any attack on critical infrastructure
and could potentially endanger state services, people's lives and even
democracy. It is of utmost importance to be able to adopt extreme security
measures in certain high-risk situations in order to secure critical
infrastructure and thus lower the level of terrorist threats while preserving
the rights of citizens. To counter these threats, our research is aiming for
extreme measures to analyse and evaluate human threats related assessment
methods for employee screening and evaluations using cognitive analysis
technology, in particular functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). The
development of fMRI has led some researchers to conclude that this technology
has forensic potential and may be useful in investing personality traits,
mental illness, psychopathology, racial prejudice and religious extremism.
However, critics claim that this technology may present many new human rights
and ethical dilemmas and could result in potentially disastrous outcomes. The
main thrust of the research is to counter above concerns and harmful
consequences by presenting a set of ethical and professional guidelines that
will substantially reduce the risk of unethical use of this technology. The
significance of this research is to ensure the limits of the
state/organisation's right to peer into an individual's thought process with
and without consent, to define the parameters of a person's right to ensure
that fMRI scans do not pose more than an appropriate threat to cognitive
liberty, and the proper use of such information in civil, forensic and security
settings.
