Brain Privacy

sleepyrobot writes "As neuroscience advances and brain scans become more sophisticated, the Boston Globe points out that some privacy advocates are concerned about brain privacy. Could employees be scanned for violent or depressive impulses? Could soldiers be screened for homosexuality? It sounds like a Philip K. Dick vision of the future, but some predict this will be a bigger ethical issue than genetics."

Comments

Uh Oh

[theBraindonor]

Now my boss will know how burned-out and disgruntled I have become... I'm so screwed...

Dang it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Problem now is that I can't back up my brain, reformat it with an encrypted file system, and then restore everything...

DMCA

[wowbagger]

I'm sorry, but I hold the copyright over my brain and the information therein, and your brain scanner is an unlawful circumvention device under the DMCA.

My lawyers will be calling.

Re:Ethics my ass

[Scrameustache]

It will also be doubleplusgood to be able to identify thought criminals with technology like this.

The bleeding-hearts freedom of thought advocates can spend a while in room 101 of the ministry of love as they always do.

I'd be glad for technology like this.

[pcraven]

It would be great to screen the boyfriends my daughter brings home. I could set curfew based upon the 'horney level' of the boyfriend.

Must be time for my blue pill...

[dhaines]

Now we know how the machines really know what Tasty Wheat tasted like.

Re:Got a whole lotta hype

[Anonymous Coward]

Poppyseed bagels are responsible for 38% of work-related injuries! Employers have the right to know!

"Threat"?

[Blondie-Wan]

He also identified the ''insidious threat'' that corporations could try to worm their way into consumers' minds.

"Threat"? "Could"?? Do they mean it hasn't happened yet??

;)

Re:Got a whole lotta hype

[Exedore]

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