Can privacy coexist with technology that reads and changes brain activity?

Ethicists, scientists and our readers consider the ethics of brain technology

illustration of scientists observing thought bubbles from a brain

The idea of letting outsiders inside the mind sparks a slew of ethical and privacy questions.

Julia Yellow

Gertrude the pig rooted around a straw-filled pen, oblivious to the cameras and onlookers — and the 1,024 electrodes eavesdropping on her brain signals.