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Christina Maher, Researcher, University of Sydney

Our neurodata can reveal our most private selves. As brain implants become common, how will it be protected?

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“Hello world!”

On December 2021, these were the first words tweeted by a paralysed man using only his thoughts and a brain-computer interface (BCI) implanted by the company Synchron.

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