Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosignals and Brain Activity

Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by an_aparallel on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @07:42PM (#37839198)

the general population, and surprisingly a lot of tech heads dont care about the implications of brain wave activity, linked to your identity - phoning home to a corporation of google's size?

we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable".

i think ALL of this technology is incredibly cool and exciting, BUT - my excitement is hampered by the internets current panopticapitalism/surveillance economy. Asking for "government to step in" as i often hear is pretty funny, seeing as what Snowden has shown us...it is often they who are lobbying for increased and tighter surveillance....

/sad.

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Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by omscs99 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @09:24PM (#37839902)

> we're one thought away for being thrown into jail for shower thoughts that go slightly the wrong side of "publicly acceptable".

Not really. That’s like being laughed at for being naked at a nudist camp. If nobody has privacy, all of those little thoughts become public and the perception of what’s acceptable shifts

In a weird way privacy is a double edged sword and necessitates its own existence

I think, in general, we’d be a lot more sane as a society if we held back less from one another

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Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by an_aparallel on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @10:57PM (#37840375)

except what we're talking about here is corporate bodies with algorhythms automating prejudice, and leveraging risk... a very different thing to sharing with one another isnt it?

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Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by omscs99 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:10PM (#37840459)

Well yes, I was talking about a different hypothetical :)

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Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by thfuran on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @05:06AM (#37842361)

>Not really. That’s like being laughed at for being naked at a nudist camp. If nobody has privacy, all of those little thoughts become public and the perception of what’s acceptable shifts

No, it just means that anyone can be destroyed if they offend the keeper of the data.

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Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by snapcaster on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @08:40AM (#37843667)

I can't help but assume that people like you who don't value privacy have never had someone trying to hurt you

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Re:Apple Patents Suggest Future AirPods Could Monitor Biosig... by justinclift on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @04:52AM (#37842280)

For all new employees, collect your assigned Apple laptop and Apple TruthPods at HR before proceeding to your floor.

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