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Your Meditation Headband May Be Feeding Your Brainwaves to an AI Model

Science’s investigation found the company trained a brain foundation model on de-identified user recordings, raising consent questions that led to a policy change.

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A recent report from the journal Science outlines the relationship between the electroencephalography (EEG) industry and AI. It found that some companies selling brain-tracking devices aren't entirely forthcoming about where users' brain-signal data ends up.Read Entire Article

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A report by Science and the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network points out that consumer neurotechnology companies collect large amounts of EEG records and that some use them to train AI models. Interaxon’s case raises questions about how much they explained their privacy policies about that use.

A research shows that brain activities of neurotech users are used without their knowledge for the training of AIs.

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Heise broke the news in Germany on Monday, November 9, 2026.
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