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

  • ForgottenFlux@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    Summary:

    • Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of biological or brain data, which is similar to fingerprints if used to identify people.
    • Advances in artificial intelligence have led to medical breakthroughs, including devices that can read minds and alter brains.
    • Neurotechnology devices, such as Emotiv and Somnee, are used for health care and can move computers with thoughts or improve brain function and identify impairments.
    • Most of these devices are not regulated by the FDA and are marketed for wellness.
    • With benefits come risks, such as insurance companies discriminating, law enforcement interrogating, and advertisers manipulating brain data.
    • Medical research facilities are subject to privacy laws, but private companies amassing large caches of brain data are not.
    • The Neurorights Foundation found that two-thirds of these companies are already sharing or selling data with third parties.
    • The new law takes effect on Aug. 8, but it is unclear which companies are subject to it and how it will be enforced.
    • Pauzauskie and the Neurorights Foundation are pushing for a federal law and even a global accord to prevent brain data from being used without consent.
  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    How that law protect our passwords in our brain aginst feds? Will this be self incrimination if feds use it to gather evidences?