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Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.
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Chris Hoofnagle
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Internet law, information privacy, consumer protection, cybersecurity, computer crime, regulation of technology, edtech
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privacy, fairness, human rights, cybersecurity, technology and governance, values in design
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Recent Publications

Dec 15, 2018

What can machines know about the mind? This dissertation seeks to understand people’s beliefs about this question: how these beliefs affect and arise from interactions with digital sensors, from prior beliefs about the mind and the body; and how these beliefs may shape the design of technical systems in the future.

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it surfaces that the boundary between sensing bodies and sensing minds is unstable, deeply entangled with social context and beliefs about the body and mind. Second, it proposes the porousness of this boundary as a site for studying the role that biosensing devices will play in near future. As biosensors creep into smart watches, bands, and ingestibles, their ability to divine not just what these bodies do, but what they think and feel, presents an under-explored avenue for understanding and imagining how thesetechnologies will come to matter in the course of life.

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Security news

New headsets use a single sensor resting against the forehead. (<a href="http://flic.kr/p/6abfCp">photo by Cory Doctorow</a>)
Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think your password. A new School of Information study explores the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication as a substitute for passwords.

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