Neurotech companies are selling your brain data, senators warn

Three Democratic senators are sounding the alarm implicit brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies' quality to cod - and perchance merchantability - our neural data. In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-IN), and Ed Markey (D-MA) called for an probe into neurotechnology companies' handling of idiosyncratic data, and for tighter regulations connected their data-sharing policies.

"Unlike different idiosyncratic data, neural information - captured straight from the quality encephalon - tin uncover intelligence wellness conditions, affectional states, and cognitive patterns, adjacent erstwhile anonymized," the missive reads. "This accusation is not lone profoundly personal; it is besides strategically sensitive."

While the conception of neural technologies whitethorn conjure up images of encephalon implants similar Elon Musk's Neuralink, determination are acold little invasive - and little regulated - neurotech products connected the market, including headsets that help radical meditate, purportedly trigger lucid dreaming, and committedness to assistance users with online dating by helping them swipe done apps "based connected your instinctive reaction." These user products gobble up insights astir users' neurological information - and since the …

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