The first-in-the-nation law in Colorado includes biological or brain data in the State Privacy Act, similar to fingerprints if the data is being used to identify people.
    • TheBigBrother@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      It would be good that shit works for that but I don’t think so… let’s see what happens when the NSA have access to your thoughts.

      Edit: I think they will apply the “if you didn’t hide anything then there is nothing to worry about” discourse.

        • TheBigBrother@lemmy.worldOP
          32·
          4 months ago

          I believe it should work with some kind of brain waves(telepathy?), apparently some kind of device you put in your head and it read information from your brain, the spooky question would be if there is a way to make a device like that to be able to read information from someone’s brain remotely. IDK this looks like a bad idea but anyway it’s already here, according to the information I believe there will be more places where law get updated about it.

          Edit: maybe it could be used for interrogation also, I mean you could know if someone it’s saying the truth or not by reading their brain.

  • sweetpotato@lemmy.ml
    10·
    4 months ago

    This has to be the most dystopian thing I’ve ever read. If the rich and the elites have the power to read our thoughts (outside of a lab) with 80-90% accuracy, I genuinely don’t know what the point of living will be. Our eternal enslavement will be completed, they could control our emotions, desires and needs, we would literally become animals.

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    You’re going to have to drag my corpse into a lab to put any neuro any-fucking-thing in or on my head.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Advances in artificial intelligence are leading to medical breakthroughs once thought impossible, including devices that can actually read minds and alter our brains.

    Pauzaskie says our brain waves are like encrypted signals and, using artificial intelligence, researchers have identified frequencies for specific words to turn thought to text with 40% accuracy, “Which, give it a few years, we’re probably talking 80-90%.”

    Researchers are now working to reverse the conditions by using electrical stimulation to alter the frequencies or regions of the brain where they originate.

    But while medical research facilities are subject to privacy laws, private companies - that are amassing large caches of brain data - are not.

    The vast majority of them also don’t disclose where the data is stored, how long they keep it, who has access to it, and what happens if there’s a security breach…

    With companies and countries racing to access, analyze, and alter our brains, Pauzauskie suggests, privacy protections should be a no-brainer, "It’s everything that we are.

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