Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy

Blame the lawyers who wrote infinitely extensive “complete and comprehensive” permission agreements for the end user. Then blame the unethical ceos and shareholder-driven companies for exploiting such permissions. Now we are in a situation that anyone can do anything with any data. And this was not what we were…

This area of ethics should be considered seriously, but in this specific instance these consumer-level headsets tell you very little about anything. I'm constantly frustrated by the amount of coverage these get when, if you've ever studied any kind of neuroscience, you realise quite how vague the data is, and how…

I thought the level of resolution of these things is comparable to .. a few tsunami warning buoys in an ocean. It's not going to be logging anyones inner monolouge to a text file anytime soon. and also there is a real normalisation challenge, as the signals vary so much form one perosn to the next. >But although EEG…