WEF speaker touts tech that allows your boss to monitor your brain activity
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#2What 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?
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#3What 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?
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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#5Brain 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
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#6WEF are either completely tone deaf, or they're playing the role of the heel.
"You will own nothing and you will be happy."
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#7What 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?
Indeed it would be terrible if there were available countless apps to monitor your remote workers' work
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#8Glad that I instead have KEF speakers ;)
My take is that the human brain isn't magic. It's mysteries will be cracked. Mind reading machines will be built. Some good may come from that, but the risk of much bad does weigh on me.
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#9If 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.
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#10The amount of bias on this news site is overwhelming, so im going to take this whole article with some skepticism.