Are We Gonna Have to Do a Brain Scanning When We Check in Through Security at an Airport Someday?

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I write about the increasing use of biometrics and the battle for your brain and especially functional biometrics so it just turns out that you know passwords as most people understand are not particularly secure and they're not a great way. I have a different password for basically every single site that I have and so I never know what my passport is and I'm like resetting them on a daily basis to avoid security problems. You can unlock your iPhone with your face or with your thumb andfunctional biometrics that is how you like how you move your fingers right across the screen or the patterns that you engage in functionally are better biometrics for security than just static ones like a face

Every time our brain does some thinking, there are associated physical processes. In particular, electric currents and charged particles jump between neurons, creating associated electromagnetic fields. These fields can in principle be detected with proper technology, opening the possibility for reading your mind. That technology is currently primitive, but rapidly advancing, and it's not too early to start thinking about legal and ethical consequences when governments and corporations have access to your thoughts. Nita Farahany is a law professor and bioethicist who discusses these issues in her new book, The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.

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Nita Farahany received a J.D. and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Duke University. She is currently the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke, as well as Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She has served on a number of government commissions, including the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is a Fellow of the American Law Institute and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was awarded the Duke Law School Distinguished Teaching Award.

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