Mind-reading technology: The security and privacy threats ahead

“We already know it’s annoying to have a user name and password hacked, and worrying when it’s your bank account details that are stolen. But BCIs (Brain‧‧‧

“We already know it’s annoying to have a user name and password hacked, and worrying when it’s your bank account details that are stolen. But BCIs (Brain Computer Interfaces) mean that eventually it’s your emotional responses that would be stolen and shared by hackers, with all the embarrassments and horrors that go with that. 

BCIs offer access to the most personal of personal data: inevitably they’ll be targeted by hackers and would-be blackmailers; equally clearly, security systems will attempt to keep data from BCIs as locked down as possible. And we already know the defenders never win every time”.


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