With the technology in its current state - it is more about getting signals into the brain/control s
With the technology in its current state - it is more about getting signals into the brain/control system rather than extracting data out - so I don't see much in the way of privacy issues at the moment
However with implantables, I would definitely worry about the security side:
(a) I'm a consultant - I sell my thoughts all the time
(b) If even I can't understand my own thoughts half the time, what hope would a third party have!
However with implantables, I would definitely worry about the security side:
- Being able to disrupt those signals (potentially rendering them useless and the user disabled again)
- Being able to alter those signals (giving spurious inputs to vision or motor control could be quite dangerous)
- Overloading the input signals (what would happen to the brain if an implant produced too much current?)
(a) I'm a consultant - I sell my thoughts all the time
(b) If even I can't understand my own thoughts half the time, what hope would a third party have!
