Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy

https://www.science.org/content/article/wearable-device-makers-are-harvesting-brain-data-train-ai-without-telling-users?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

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The real title of the article is : “The scramble for your brain data”

“On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces” (Martinovic et al. 2012)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit…

That’s what I see in the article body, but the tag is “Wearable device makers are harvesting brain data to train AI—without telling users” for me. It’s not clear to me if the submitter changed the title on submission or if the site’s doing some form of A/B testing.

Quit your job, apply at DHL, Flink or as Über-Driver and you will never have problems falling asleep again. Also working as a storeman, commuting by bus and tram will surely guarantee an early bed time. No expensive gyms needed, just go by bike to your office, the entire year. Also, ask your employer if you could help out in production or warehouse. Problem solved.

Reading someone’s mind is just the beginning, that paper was 14 years ago, and they’ve likely advanced far beyond it. Buried behind private orgs and dark government agencies, the real objective has always been mind control.

Peter Thiel and his ilk would use it to reprogram anyone who doesn’t conform to there thinking. He even bragged about it before being indirectly called the antichrist in his interview with Ross Douthat.

This is an extremely common practice among publishers. They put a more SEO friendly headline in the and I’d say the “real headline” is always in the

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Every day my urge to just disconnect from modern society becomes stronger, but alas it is impossible to live outside of it when you have a family.

I finally got around to firing up the Neurosity Crown I bought some years ago to experiment with BCI. Lights are on, but nobody is home; it knows the position of my head, but no actual EEG data is coming into the system.

Multiple attempts to contact any kind of support have gone unanswered, and according to Reddit the founders appear to have quietly disappeared, which pisses me off more than a little bit. This thing was not cheap.

Clean url: https://www.science.org/content/article/wearable-device-make…

That title is one hell of an understatement.