brain malware

MaryW commented on the word brain malware

As BCI technology spreads further (towards becoming ubiquitous), it is easy to imagine more sophisticated "spying" applications being developed for nefarious purposes. Leveraging recent neuroscience results . . ., it may be possible to extract private informaiton about users' memories, prejudices, religious and political beliefs, as well as about their possible neurophysiological disorders. The extracted information could be used to manipulate or coerce users, or otherwise harm them. The impact of "brain malware" could be severe, in terms of privacy and other important values.

Tamara Bonaci, Ryan Calo & Howard Jay Chizeck, App Stores for the Brain: Privacy & Security in Brain-Computer Interfaces, 2014 IEEE Int’l Symp. on Ethics in Sci., Tech. & Eng’rg at 1-7, reprinted in IEEE Tech. & Soc’y Mag., June 2015, at 32-39.

June 1, 2016