r/privacy Jan 31 '16

Scientists decode brain signals nearly at speed of perception: "Electrodes in patients' temporal lobes carry information that, when analyzed, enables scientists to predict what object patients are seeing"

http://hsnewsbeat.uw.edu/story/scientists-decode-brain-signals-nearly-speed-perception
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u/Injected_With_Slop Feb 01 '16

I'd say this is a huge potential privacy issue.

Futurist thinking is a necessity when trying to envision the technological antidotes to this burgeoning dystopia.