alt Hacker NewsHow about complaining that brain waves get sent to a server? I'm a neuroscientist, so I'm not going to say that the EEG data is mind reading or anything, but as a precedent, non privacy of brain data is very bad.
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People will be lining up to have their brainwaves harvested because it'll be mildly easier to send emails or something similarly inane.
You could read the alertness level from an EEG, which could be helpful to a burglar. The device with slow-wave status seems ideal.
"Broker" is right there in the title of the post.
Baby's gotta get some cash somewhere.
How useful could something like this be for research? I'm not a neuroscientist so I have no clue, but it seems like the only justification I can think of..
I would presume data privacy laws already have good precedent for health data?
Millions of people voluntarily use Gmail which gives a lot more useful data than EEG output to DHS et al without a warrant under FAA702. What makes you think people who “have nothing to hide” would care about publishing their EEG data?
Non-privacy of this person is currently sleeping data is very bad as well, for different reasons.
You know, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm beginning to wonder if poor data privacy could have some negative effects.