If you worried that tinfoil hats weren't enough to keep your brainwaves from being scanned, you can rest easy, at least if you live in Colorado because they passed legislation protecting your brainwaves.
(Everyone knows alien brain-scanning technology is pretty much powerless against legislation!!)
The law is meant to target new devices like these:
And while that's pretty cool,
Emotiv is also creating a database from all their users to develop a universal technology.
In addition to small startups like Emotiv, several large companies like Meta, Apple, and Snap are creating their own entries in the field.
And let's not forget Elon Musk's more invasive Neurolink.
So, Colorado is trying to get out ahead of the technology in terms of privacy laws by adding brainwave patterns to the list of biometric data already protected like fingerprints and facial patterns.
"Everything that we are is within our mind," NeuroRights Foundation cofounder Jared Genser told the New York Times. "What we think and feel, and the ability to decode that from the human brain, couldn't be any more intrusive or personal to us." Even though the new law doesn't actually protect data gathered for those purposes — which is largely thanks to Big Tech lobbying — Genser said it was "a major step forward."
It's a whole new world out there, people, and things are moving faster all the time.
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