> I don't want a few irrationally paranoid people bottlenecking progress and access to the latest technology and innovation.

Paranoid? Is there not enough evidence posted almost daily on HN that tech companies are constantly spying on their users through computers, Internet-of-Shit devices, phones, cars and even washing machines? You might not care about the brainwave data specifically, but there is bound to be information on your devices that you expect remains private.

Things have become so bad that I now refuse to use computers that don't run a DIY Linux distro like Arch that allows users to decide what goes into their system. My phone runs GrapheneOS because Google and Apple can't be trusted. I self host email and other "cloud" services for the same reason.