Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy

Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by bawana on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:38AM (#50412742)

It seeems like every new appliance, tool, fixture or almost anything has become a device to gather data. This will change how we divide society into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. When AI and robotics displace most people from gainful employment, the only thing left we will have to trade for money is ourselves, our thoughts and our bodies.

The only way to stop this debasement of humanity is to destroy the tools that store this data. Time for everyone to start carrying portable emp devices and performing 'random acts of privacy preservation'.

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Re:Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy by cwmoore on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:01AM (#50412902)

Those in the US might recall “one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.

Then in the past couple decades—a generation—we have put our faith into new ways of communicating, with many convenient individual decisions that undermine our traditional social context, eg. giving away our contacts, recording everywhere, and reporting our locations, with simple personal benefits and large effects (multitrillion dollar effects are substantial). Our institutional trust is plainly naive to graph theory.

Unsure how to curve fit the two.

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