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posted by CoolHand on Monday May 15 2017, @01:58PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-didnt-just-think-at-me-did-you dept.

"Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind," wrote the playwright John Milton in 1634.

But, nearly 400 years later, technological advances in machines that can read our thoughts mean the privacy of our brain is under threat.

Now two biomedical ethicists are calling for the creation of new human rights laws to ensure people are protected, including "the right to cognitive liberty" and "the right to mental integrity".

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/delete-thoughts-read-your-mind-without-your-knowledge-neurotechnology-new-human-rights-laws-a7701661.html

Scientists have already developed devices capable of telling whether people are politically right-wing or left-wing. In one experiment, researchers were able to read people's minds to tell with 70 per cent accuracy whether they planned to add or subtract two numbers.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @03:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @03:05AM (#510369)

    So true, and so depressing. Everybody else is too busy being a temporarily embarrassed millionaire or else somebody who gets upset any time the government reduces “their money.”