This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work
Critics doubt that Emotiv's earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.
The MN8 electroencephalography device looks like any set of sleek wireless earphones. Its buds can rest unobtrusively in the ear's concha for a whole workday and that, its makers at San Francisco-based Emotiv say, is the point. You and everyone around you forgets you’re wearing a device that is monitoring your brainwaves for signs of stress, focus, and attention.
The purpose of the headset, after all, is for companies to collect brain data from their employees.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4qd7/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work
#US #Emotiv #earphone #workplace #surveillance #privacy
Critics doubt that Emotiv's earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.
The MN8 electroencephalography device looks like any set of sleek wireless earphones. Its buds can rest unobtrusively in the ear's concha for a whole workday and that, its makers at San Francisco-based Emotiv say, is the point. You and everyone around you forgets you’re wearing a device that is monitoring your brainwaves for signs of stress, focus, and attention.
The purpose of the headset, after all, is for companies to collect brain data from their employees.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4qd7/this-company-wants-to-help-your-boss-monitor-your-brainwaves-at-work
#US #Emotiv #earphone #workplace #surveillance #privacy
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This Company Wants to Help Your Boss Monitor Your Brainwaves at Work
Critics doubt that Emotiv's earphone-style sensors can reliably track things like stress and attention—and some worry the technology will become yet another form of workplace surveillance.