How about complaining that brain waves get sent to a server?
I'm a neuroscientist, so I'm not going to say that the EEG data is mind reading or anything, but as a precedent, non privacy of brain data is very bad.
You know, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm beginning to wonder if poor data privacy could have some negative effects.
But keep in mind that other less obvious data sources can often lead to similar issues. For example phone accelerometer data can be used to precisely locate someone driving in a car in a city by comparing it with a street map.
In the context of the military even just inferring a comprehensive map of which people are on which shift and when they change might be considered a threat.
For example a while back I wanted to map out my sleep cycle and I found a tool that charts your browser history over a 24 hour period, and it mapped almost perfectly to my sleep / wake periods.
Very, but there are already tons of them at lots of different price, quality, openness levels. A lot of manufacturers have their own protocols; there are also quasi/standards like Lab Streaming Layer for connecting to a hodgepodge of devices.
This particular data?
Probably not so useful. While it’s easy to get something out of an EEG set, it takes some work to get good quality data that’s not riddled with noise (mains hum, muscle artifacts, blinks, etc). Plus, brain waves on their own aren’t particularly interesting—-it’s seeing how they change in response to some external or internal event that tells us about the brain.
Google for a list of all the exceptions to HIPPA. There are a lot of things that _seem_ like they should be covered by HIPPA but are not...
Baby's gotta get some cash somewhere.
Not everybody gets it.
Poe's law is always described as being about parodies of extreme viewpoints, not about perceived misunderstandings of what is being commented on.
I don't think that the viewpoint that these people will sell your data in a heartbeat is extreme.