[HN Gopher] WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to moni...
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       WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain
       activity
        
       Author : sfusato
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-01-20 22:15 UTC (45 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.lifesitenews.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.lifesitenews.com)
        
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       | walterbell wrote:
       | Brain ethicist from Duke Law, https://law.duke.edu/fac/farahany/
       | 
       |  _> [Farhany] believes an important defense against potential
       | abuses of privacy using such technology is pre-emptively
       | "recognizing a right to cognitive liberty, a right to self-
       | determination over our brains and mental experiences," and added
       | that "it requires that we update existing international human
       | rights ... "Speaking as a CEO, I'm sure all CEOs will use it
       | completely responsibly," said moderator and Atlantic CEO Nicholas
       | Thompson, to the laughter of Farahany and the audience._
       | 
       | Read-only sensory proxies for brain state include:
       | iris response, via headset camera       facial expression, via
       | image analysis       heart rate, through walls via Wi-Fi Sensing
        
       | LarryMullins wrote:
       | WEF are either completely tone deaf, or they're playing the role
       | of the heel.
       | 
       |  _" You will own nothing and you will be happy."_
        
       | intrasight wrote:
       | Glad that I instead have KEF speakers ;)
        
       | rqtwteye wrote:
       | If there won't be a massive change of laws, all this stuff will
       | be deployed everywhere. First the workplace and then everywhere.
       | The whole idea of "no expectation of privacy in public spaces"
       | doesn't work when the tech exists to deploy surveillance
       | everywhere. The control freaks will take over.
        
       | user- wrote:
       | The amount of bias on this news site is overwhelming, so im going
       | to take this whole article with some skepticism.
        
       | peepeepoopoo3 wrote:
       | What a relief that we have a democracy and not an oligarchy to
       | prevent bad things like this from happening. Wouldn't that be
       | terrible if we did?
        
         | sheerun wrote:
         | Indeed it would be terrible if there were available countless
         | apps to monitor your remote workers' work
        
         | colpabar wrote:
         | hey don't worry, all these people tweet about how much they
         | love black people and trans rights when it's beneficial for
         | them to do so. they definitely have our backs.
        
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