
By the end of 2028, will there be a public scandal about someone's brain signals being collected or analyzed without their consent?
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For example, someone goes in for a brain scan and isn't told that their brain waves are also going to be used for something else.
Must be a relatively big scandal, noticed by a few thousand people at least. A viral tweet, a major news article, etc.
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