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"The quest to remove the final barrier of privacy"

• shadowgovt 5y ago
  Are you assuming a brain-scanning technology wouldn't be opt-in? I figure the mechanical nature of it would make it difficult to implement in any other way... If someone doesn't want to be scanned, they can take the helmet off.
  • brightstep 5y ago
    Can't wait until law enforcement can compel me to put on the mind reading device.
    • booleandilemma 5y ago
      It’ll only be used every time you fly. And attend sporting events. And when you’re pulled over for a traffic violation. And in schools.
    • NortySpock 5y ago
      Maybe in court we can make it like discovery or cross-examination... "Ok, I'll agree to using the mind-reader, but only if I can use the mind-reader on you as well..." Daniel Suarez touched on a proto-society developing with fMRI mind-reading in his Daemon series of books. Higher levels of authority required more frequent rounds of time in the mind-reader taking loyalty/polygraph tests.
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  • canjobear 5y ago
    It could be made involuntary in the context of, for example, interrogations.