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Brain Privacy

Posted by michael on from the he-knows-when-you've-been-naughty dept.

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."

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  1. Brain scan! by 56ksucks · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is no reason to fear for your brain privacy, in fact there is no such thing as a brain scan! It is all lies! Even if there were those who could perform a brain scan, there aren't, but if their were, they have all commited suicide under the walls of Baghdad! We are not afraid of the brain scan, allah has condemned them, they are stupid. They are stupid..... and they are condemned. We welcome them with bullets and shoes!

    -Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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    ---- "Excuse me. Where's the children's gun section?"