As consumer technology capturing brain data proliferates under the radar of medical device regulation, Colorado has changed its privacy act to include biology.
Elon Musk's Neuralink is the most famous example of how technology is being embedded with the human mind, but many consumer tech products not covered by medical regulation are also capturing brain waves, and the biggest tech companies in the market including Apple have filed patents for brain-sensing applications.
The question"What is a thought?" is no longer strictly a philosophical one. Like anything else measurable, our thoughts are subject to increasingly technical answers, with data captured by tracking brainwaves. That breakthrough also means the data is commodifiable, and captured brain data is already being bought and sold by companies in the wearable consumer technologies space, with few protections in place for users.a first-in-the-nation privacy act aimed at protecting these rights.
How much data can be collected depends upon several factors, but the technology is rapidly advancing, and could lead to an exponential increase in applications, with the tech increasingly incorporating AI. Apple has already "The best and most recent tech/privacy analogies might be the internet and consumer genetic revolutions, which largely went unchecked," Pauzauskie said.
Tracking neural data could mean tracking a broad range of cognitive processes and functions, including thoughts, intentions, and memories, they wrote in a joint statement sent via email. At one extreme, tracking neural data might mean accessing medical information directly.
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