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Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

America will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts.

Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.

[-] GregoryTheGreat@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

I thought they were $10,000

[-] Igotz80HDnImWinning@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago

Foil Hat Club FTW!

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Naah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.

[-] null@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

I don't think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer.

I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 5 months ago

Aha... Didn't get that. Thanks. :)

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Not if you don’t wear a sensor on or in your head

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one -5 points 5 months ago

In less than 10 years some type of implant will be mandatory.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Doubt

[-] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

At an absolute minimum 20. We aren't seeing any useful systems that work on any scale at all yet. The iphone made smart phones pseudo mandatory but they were preceded by decades of development with several generations of usable devices. If I had to guess it's probably closer to 30 years if tech decides to go in that direction which itself isn't guaranteed.

[-] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Care to explain?

[-] Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Finally, we can be safe from thought criminals.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile the data from the cops implants: . ….. there doesn’t seem to be any activity

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 5 months ago

If my thoughts were actually valuable, I'd already be selling my ideas in books or something.

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Man, I dunno. My brain suuuuuuuuucks. Whats the value here?

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

Maybe they want to use it as a signal repeater for ddos attacks.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Hahahahaha... Fine, fine, have the upvote.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 months ago

Figuring out the best way to manipulate money out of you

[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Jokes on them. Broke.

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

https://archive.ph/39CAN

[-] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Day by day, Psycho pass dystopia is becoming real. Getting obliterated by cops who shoot at people for having thoughts outside the box is not stressful at all I swear /s

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