Re:Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer inter...
by ganafagol on Monday April 05, 2021 @02:50AM
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> What about recording your own thoughts and then playing them back to yourself later?
Wet dream of surveillance tech.
50 years ago, if you had suggested that someday all your social connections would be instantly available to all serious secret services as well as big corps, people would laugh at you. You'd be the negative guy, against progress. 1984 fans were the paranoid tinfoil hat guys. Today it's reality. And only few actually care.
You don't want tech to automatically transcribe your thoughts. That's the only domain today where real privacy still exists.
Wet dream of surveillance tech.
50 years ago, if you had suggested that someday all your social connections would be instantly available to all serious secret services as well as big corps, people would laugh at you. You'd be the negative guy, against progress. 1984 fans were the paranoid tinfoil hat guys. Today it's reality. And only few actually care.
You don't want tech to automatically transcribe your thoughts. That's the only domain today where real privacy still exists.
There is a nice Black Mirror episode about this.