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  • Researchers can find your deepest secrets by scanning your brain

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    Sean Buckley
    Sean Buckley
    09.09.2016

    Verifying your identity with brainwave scans sounds pretty awesome on the surface, but new research from from Texas Tech University shows that EEG identification could be the start of a whole new world of privacy concerns. It's not so much that brainwaves are susceptible to forgery, like fingerprints -- it's that EEG scanning applications can glean a lot more from your grey matter than you might want. Like, for instance, if you're secretly an alcoholic.