Greater safeguards are needed to address the personal safety, security and privacy risks arising from increasing adoption of neurotechnology in the consumer realm.
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Ienca, M., Haselager, P. & Emanuel, E. Brain leaks and consumer neurotechnology. Nat Biotechnol 36, 805–810 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4240
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