jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoYour Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1195arrow-down15
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minus-squarephoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·2 years agoAmerica will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts. Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.
minus-squareGregoryTheGreat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoI thought they were $10,000
minus-squareIgotz80HDnImWinning@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·2 years agoFoil Hat Club FTW!
minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·2 years agoNaah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.
minus-squarenull@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoI don’t think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer. I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.
America will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts.
Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.
I thought they were $10,000
Foil Hat Club FTW!
Naah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.
I don’t think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer.
I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.
Aha… Didn’t get that. Thanks. :)