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Muse maker Interaxon reportedly trained AI on users’ de-identified brainwave data, then revised its privacy policy after journalists asked questions.

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What does that even mean? If you're using the device as intended, it collects a few changing numbers while you're presumably laying in bed asleep. You can train a computer to be able to answer "If somebody is wearing a brain wave monitor and these are the readings, is that person asleep?" Maybe they can infer sleep quality? These types of scanner cannot tell what you are thinking.