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.

After all, the privacy of our mind may be the only privacy we have left.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I remember an old school conspiracy theory about technology that could read tiny movements in your vocal cords that mimic thoughts.

    While I doubt the technology to read minds remotely actually exists, I’m sure the techbros and their various financiers are working toward it.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    6 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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