Cheaper and easy to use, the headbands – which can cost just a few hundred dollars – capture similar electronic data as state-of-the-art hospital machines, only with far less fuss.

“In the beginning I was thrilled, I thought: ‘patients can even do all this themselves, at home,'” he told Context.

“But then I thought: ‘wait a second, that means all their brain data is going to some private company.'”

…”I am confident that in the next couple of years there will be many devices that can read your thoughts,” said Pauzauskie, who is excited to gain this new insight into how minds work.

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Asher-Schapiro, A. (2024, March 21). ‘Wild West’ of neuroscience drives new laws on brain privacy. Context. https://www.context.news/ai/brain-privacy-at-stake-as-wild-west-neuroscience-drives-new-laws