Submitted by Tom_Lilja t3_117ro1v in singularity
Tom_Lilja OP t1_j9dcmxt wrote
Privacy rights are what no BCI manufacturer wants to talk about today. It is easy to understand why.
>If employers collect brain data over time, could they go back and reanalyze the raw data?
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>Technologists in the field a decade ago would have told people, “What are you worried about collecting neural data, there is so little we will ever be able to decode from surface-based electrodes rather than ones that are implanted in the brain.” They don’t say that anymore.
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>They recognize that we can already do so much more than we ever expected. As the algorithms get better and the more data we amass, the more precise the models become.
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>Given that most of this data is being uploaded to cloud servers and kept there indefinitely, you can have very significant longitudinal data. I hired this person when they were 23 and they are 43 now, how effective is their brain at this point? Have they served their good useful lifetime of service to us?
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