Privacy News China exercises Scanning brainwaves and emotions

[Ink]

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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xkymg/china-brain-wave-hats-helmets-productivity

At a factory in Hangzhou, China, production line workers are allegedly being outfitted with brain-reading hats and helmets. They read workers’ emotions and use artificial intelligence algorithms to “detect emotional spikes such as depression, anxiety or rage,” according to the South China Morning Post.

Hangzhou Zhongheng Electric is one of many Chinese companies using government-sponsored technologies to monitor the brain activity of employees while they’re on the job, the Post reports.

MIT Technology Review notes that the details in the story (or lack thereof) raise suspicions: What we can reliably detect from over-the-skin EEG sensors about human emotions is still fairly unclear.

Read more at China Claims It's Scanning Workers' Brainwaves to Increase Efficiency and Profits

 

[upnorth]

Digging deeper in the history of experiments on people is IMO extremely scary and disturbing as many countries done it and more then likely still do. Disabled children and even on newborns.

Can guess the workers the article relate to hasen't much to counter with as it's the companies way or the highway.