Muse maker Interaxon reportedly trained AI on users’ de-identified brainwave data, then revised its privacy policy after journalists asked questions.
Not to let this company off the hook for their poor disclosure but just assume all data is being stolen from you the second you open a door. Even if a company seems legit they have a dozen sketchy vendors handling your data. If you don’t like it you don’t buy this ridiculous, gimmicky shit. It’s bad enough we have to submit to these practices to use the dentist or the grocery store. You don’t have to invite it into your life for some gewgaw that should be sold next to whoopie cushions and x-ray specs.
I was doing research the other day for my job and it involved all those data broker removal tools. One of them is by incogni and it’s supposedly “better”. They claimed all your data stayed in America except if you checked their JavaScript was literally sending data straight to an analytics company based in Europe.
A different data removal tool called easy opt out on the other hand loaded zero JavaScript at all (or at least third party JavaScript) and had actual security claims on their site. But they haven’t done any audits so don’t trust them either!!!
