Targeted Individual Program is US Special Operations Command’s “Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating Hostile Forces

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The following seven power point presentations made by and for US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and their military and corporate partners clearly describe and detail the “technology,” systems, and personnel behind the “organized stalking-electronic torture program." 

These power point presentations indicate that this new form of unconventional warfare/low intensity conflict being covertly waged against civilians placed on the Terrorism Watch List under the pretext of the so-called “War on Terrorism” is actually “multi-domain warfare.”

The following terms and technologies, depicted in these power point presentations, strongly suggest that so-called “Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (CTTL)”, later termed “Hostile Forces- Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (HF-TTL), is the USAP (Unacknowledged Special Access Project) commonly referred to as the Targeted Individual Program/Organized Stalking-Electronic Harassment. 

Furthermore, TIs are obviously the expendable guinea pigs/test subjects for development of these technologies:

1) Tagging, Tracking, and Locating Human (High-value) targets aka “hostile forces” to support the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT)
2) Technologies include:
Nanotechnology (including Quantum Dot and Self-assembled Photonic Antenna)
Biotechnology (including “biomimetic devices for detection and identification at long distances” and “Taggants for Biological Signature Amplification, Translation,”)
Chemistry (including “signature enhancing Taggants” and “chemical/biochemical sensors for natural signatures”)
3) Participating agencies include: DARPA, Army Research Lab, NSA, DIA, CIA, Homeland Security, FBI,  Air Force Research Lab, DOE, and Industry
4) Human signature detection via skin spectral emissivity's, thermal fingerprints at long distance
5) fieldable “bio-electronics”
6) bio-engineered signature translation and bio-reactive taggant (implant)
7) self-assembled photonic antennae
8) biometrics and tactical site exploitation (forensics)
9) Operation “Silent Dagger” 
10) Ground SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) Kit (GSK)
11) Joint Threat Warning Systems from the Air, Land, and Sea
12) RF (radio-frequency) and non-traditional (eg., optical/multi-band) Tags and R/Xs
13) “synchronize acquisition of signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities across the air, ground and maritime (warfare) domains”
14) SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND EXPLOITATION
15) Blue Force Tracking (BFT)
16) Special Operations Tactical Video Systems (SOTVS)
17) Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE)
18) tiny satellites that keep tabs on targets from above (SpaceX rocket carrying the CubeSats—inexpensive satellites so small they can fit in the palm of your hand)
19) tracking satellites are part of the growing Special Operations focus on “high-value target” missions
20) tracking tags on enemies including radio frequency identification devices, quantum dots that could be used to track a singe molecule, and tagging measures such as insect pheromones

To acquire the high-value human “targets” needed to test and develop these clandestine weapons systems, the US government, through the FBI-DHS Fusion Centers and Neighborhood Watch Programs among others, has mislabeled innocent citizens as “terrorists” and “hostile forces.” Thus, ALL involved in these operations are complicit in “crimes against humanity,” “war crimes,” murder, attempted murder, torture, terrorism, and TREASON. These individuals and institutions are the real terrorists and they are TRAITORS!

These programs are funded via American tax dollars and deploy regular and irregular (citizen-based agents) forces as well as special forces against innocent citizens.

I. US Special Operations Command: Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (CTTL)

by Doug Richardson SOAL-T WSO, Sept. 5, 2007

Also at: Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (CTTL) Mr. Doug Richardson SOAL-T WSO5 September 2007 US Special Operations Command

Mr. Doug Richardson SOAL-T WSO 5 September 2007. The overall classification of this briefing is: UNCLASSIFIED and Locating (CTTL) The Ability to Locate, Track, and Identify Human Beings.

Highlights From PPT:

p. 3: Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (CTTL)

– The Ability to Locate, Track, and Identify Human Beings and Other Important Targets

- Directly Supports DoD’s Ability to Prosecute the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)

- Forces Require an Ability to Apply and Monitor Tags

- Detect and Identify Targets Based on Their Unique Observable Characteristics Without Undue Exposure of Personnel to Risks and With Devices That are Sufficiently Clandestine to be Effective.

p. 4: Partnership between Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (ASD SO/LIC), USSOCOM, and U.S. Army

- Objective: Conduct a Collaborative Effort to Develop New Capabilities for Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating in Response to Priorities Established in a Quick-look Capability-based Assessment Conducted in Response to the Findings of the QDR

- Approach: Transition Existing State-of-the-Art Technologies in Nanotechnology, Chemistry, and Biology to Operational Systems Through the USSOCOM Acquisition Process and Conduct RDT&E From Basic Research Through Prototyping to Provide Continuous Improvements in the CTTL Technology Available for Transition to the Operators. Specific Capability Projections Are Classified.

p. 7: CTTL– Key Enabling Technologies

- Nanotechnology

Clandestine Devices
High Functional-density Devices
Self-organizing, Self-deploying Devices
Processing and Communications
Energy Harvesting

- Biotechnology

Biomimetic Devices for Detection and Identification (ID) at Long Distance Bio-based Devices for Detection and ID at Long Distance Taggants for Biological Signature Amplification, Translation Natural Signature Detection and ID

- Chemistry

Signature Enhancing Taggants
Chemical/Biochemical Sensors for Natural Signatures

p. 8: CTTL– Partnership for Transition–

- DDR&E and USSOCOM AE Executive Sponsorship and Oversight
- USSOCOM Transition

PEO-Special Projects
PEO-Intelligence and Information Systems

- Collaborative Execution of S&T

DoD Service Laboratories
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
ASD(SO/LIC) Coordinated Investments
Intelligence Community Research Organizations
DOE Laboratories

p. 13: CTTL — Human Signature Detection

- Skin Spectral Emissivity's Measured
- Thermal Fingerprints Determined
- “Target” Reacquired 90 Minutes Later

Goal: Verification of Capability and Operational Value Within 2 Years

Human Thermal Fingerprint at Long Distance

p. 14: CTTL –Human Signature Detection —

Goal: Demonstration of Fieldable “Bioelectronics” Within 5 Years

Synthetic Dog’s Nose Sensor

p. 15: CTTL — Signature Amplification/Translation

Bioengineered Signature Translation Bio-reactive Taggant
Goal: Move Basic Research to Advanced Development in 3 Years

Current Capability – Bioengineered Signature Translation

p. 16: CTTL — Nano-scale Devices

Quantum Dots
Goal : Micro-scale in 12 Months, Nano-scale in 4 to 5 Years
Self-assembled Photonic Antenna

II. UNCLASSIFIED Mr. Douglas Richardson Program Executive Officer SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND EXPLOITATION

III. SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE Mr. David Breede, Program Executive Officer SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES INDUSTRY CONFERENCE EXPANDING THE COMPETITIVE SPACE

IV. Successes / Lessons Learned: Adapting Technology to Enhance Technology to Enhance the Warfighter

V. SPECIAL RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND EXPLOITATION by Douglas Richardson and David Breed (Special Operations Forces Industry Conference)

VI. Portfolio Review and APBI Mr. Douglas Richardson

VII. Mr. Douglas Richardson Program Executive Officer Special Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Exploitation (SRSE)

VIII. U.S. Special Ops Building Satellites to Track Terrorists Everywhere (2011)

Mind Control with Dr. James Giordano PhD, MPhil, is Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Biochemistry at Georgetown University

 Also see here and see here, (be sure to scroll down and go through all of the articles.) 

We are Hackable Animals

There you go. No more rights. Here is the wikipedia of the guy that is featured in the top video below.  In the bottom video is Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google along with Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum. Have you ever seen the movie the Circle, which is loosely based upon Google? Remember the Google Chrome circle? Do you remember in the movie how they were following the guy around? This is organized stalking! 

The guy in the top video is Dr Yuval Noah Harari, see interviews with him here, here, and here with James Altucher. I have written previously about James Altucher here, here, and here, The video proves what I am saying. James is a computer scientist, Yuval isn't, but he knows about this. (It is worth mentioning, James is not the only one covering this up.)

Where's the Justice? Silicon Valley Billionaire Scum Along With the CIA and NSA: Must Watch Documentary Below- Learn the History of Manipulation of Human Beings With Classified Technology (Many Silicon Valley Billionaires, Electrical Engineers, Computer Scientists, Neuroscientists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists Know About This & Are Complicit in Covering it Up)

See here for more about Ewen Cameron.  See here for a list of government agencies involved in covering up the human rights abuses and torture that continues now.  

See here and here for more about classified and hi-technology. See here for more about MkUltra. (Be sure to scroll down and go through all of the articles when you click through on the MkUltra link.) See here for more about Transhumanism. (Be sure to scroll down and go through all of the articles and videos when you click on the Transhumanist link.)

The documentary below is an absolute must watch. Be sure to watch the whole presentation. You will learn how long this technology has been around and the massive human rights abuses that have been perpetrated. This is something that is rarely talked about, in fact, it is extremely difficult to find information on this topic. Be sure to watch this old news clip from CNN in the 80's. Also interesting are movies from the 80's like Videodrome and Brainstorm. 

Brain Computer Interfaces, Mind Control and Surveillance

See past video with Steve Hoffman here. Some one in Silicon Valley that actually tells some of the truth. Think of how many of them know this and say absolutely nothing. 

Neuroscientist Dr James Giordano. Neuro-Weapons. Directed Energy Weapons. Brain Implants

See here for more about smart dust, see here for more about nanotechnology and the brain. 

Hacking Humans

Watch video below, see past videos from this same hacker here. Also, see the screenshot of his company below the video. He works with Homeland Security, so the US government should probably know about this technology.  He also works with Honeywell, a major military contractor that is involved with augmented cognition. 

Neural Dust Implanted in the Body Without Surgery Could Monitor or Stimulate Internal Muscles, Organs, Nerves or Brain in Real-Time

Watch the Video and
Read the Article Here

Dr Yuval Noah Harari WE CAN HACK INTO PEOPLE - THEY ARE DOING IT NOW!

See past video here with Dr Yuval Noah Harari. Remember, this video is from the World Economic Forum. They are doing this now... end of story, this is real. No more lying. 

 

Ethical Considerations of Brain Computer Interfaces

Ethical Considerations of Brain Computer Interfaces - Nanotechnology: see here: https://exposeintelligence.blogspot.ca/2016/06/ethical-considerations-of-brain.html … … and here: https://exposeintelligence.blogspot.ca/2015/09/eu-commission-ethical-aspects-of-ict_11.html … … For more about classified and hi-technology see here and here.

Must See: Learn About the DARPA Brain Initiative

Also see here and here. 

Officials say 130 suspected victims of possible energy weapon

 See here in New York Times too.  

Tiny, Wireless, Injectable Chips Use Ultrasound to Monitor Body Processes

 See here, here, here, here, and here for past articles with ultrasound. 

Date:

 May 11, 2021

Source:

 Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Summary:

 Researchers report that they have built what they say is the world's smallest single-chip system, consuming a total volume of less than 0.1 mm3. The system is as small as a dust mite and visible only under a microscope. In order to achieve this, the team used ultrasound to both power and communicate with the device wirelessly.

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Wireless Mind Control: Neural “Smart” Dust Will Now Connect Human Brain To a Computer

See a past article on this topic here. 

By Nicholas West

Neural Dust – “Smart Dust” – has entered the mainstream via the Independent’s article: “Tiny implant could connect humans and machines like never before.”  This new technology can wirelessly link a human brain to a computer via the implantation of a device the size of a grain of sand. This invention is clearly nothing new; but when the mainstream media begins highlighting something that is literally wireless mind control, it’s worth taking note. It is also worth noting that, as more people learn about science fiction becoming science reality, they are becoming increasingly hesitant about the lack of ethical boundaries for what is emerging.

Some people might have heard about Smart Dust; nanoparticles that can be employed as sensor networks for a range of security and environmental applications. Now, however, literal Smart Dust for the brain is being proposed as the next step toward establishing a brain-computer interface.

The system is officially called “neural dust” and works to “monitor the brain from the inside.” Inventors are attempting to overcome the hurdle of how to best implant sensors that can remain over the course of one’s life. Researchers at Berkeley Engineering believe they have found a novel way to achieve this:

This paper explores the fundamental system design trade-offs and ultimate size, power, and bandwidth scaling limits of neural recording systems.

A network of tiny implantable sensors could function like an MRI inside the brain, recording data on nearby neurons and transmitting it back out. The smart dust particles would all contain an extremely small CMOS sensor capable of measuring electrical activity in nearby neurons. The researchers envision a piezoelectric material backing the CMOS capable of generating electrical signals from ultrasound waves. The process would also work in reverse, allowing the dust to beam data back via high-frequency sound waves. The neural dust would also be coated with polymer. (Source)

The investment in neuroscience has received a $100 million dollar commitment via Obama’s BRAIN project, while Europe has committed $1.3 billion to build a supercomputer replica of the brain in a similarly comprehensive and detailed fashion as the Human Genome Project mapped DNA.

Concurrently, there is massive long-term investment in nanotech applications via the 60-page National Nanotechnology Initiative 2011 Strategic Plan (now updated to 88 pages in 2014 – Ed.) This document lays out a projected future “to understand and control matter” for the management of every facet of human life within the surveillance matrix of environment, health and safety. Twenty-five U.S. Federal agencies are participating.

The concept of Smart Dust has been applied and/or proposed for use in the following ways, just to name a few:

• Nano sensors for use in agriculture that measure crops and environmental conditions.
• Bomb-sniffing plants using rewired DNA to detect explosives and biological agents.
• “Smart Dust” motes that wirelessly transmit data on temperature, light, and movement (this can also be used in currency to track cash).

However, this is the first time that there is a working plan to apply Smart Dust to the human brain. Researchers claim it will be some time before (if ever) this is workable. One aspect that is interesting to note, is that once these particles are sent into the brain, it will be ultrasound that activates the system for full monitoring. This is an area of research that also has been looked at by DARPA as one of the future methods of mind control.

Their idea is to sprinkle electronic sensors the size of dust particles into the cortex and to interrogate them remotely using ultrasound. The ultrasound also powers this so-called neural dust.

Each particle of neural dust consists of standard CMOS circuits and sensors that measure the electrical activity in neurons nearby…

The neural dust is interrogated by another component placed beneath the scale but powered from outside the body. This generates the ultrasound that powers the neural dust and sensors that listen out for their response, rather like an RFID system.

The system is also tetherless–the data is collected and stored outside the body for later analysis. (source, MIT)

Read “tetherless” as “wireless” — or remote controlled analysis of the human brain, thus opening the door (theoretically) for remote mind control. As I’ve highlighted before, this is a two-way street — some people might feel content, for example, with sending their brain’s information out to a doctor for evaluation, but this sensor network could also transmit data back, as is admitted here:

That’s why Seo and co have chosen ultrasound to send and receive data. They calculate that the power required to use electromagnetic waves on the scale would generate a damaging amount of heat because of the amount of energy the body absorbs and the troubling signal-to-noise ratios at this scale.

By contrast, ultrasound is a much more efficient and should allow the transmission of at least 10 million times more power than electromagnetic waves at the same scale. (emphasis added).

In case anyone believes that this has little chance of success, MIT highlights that one of the authors of the research has already achieved this with a remote controlled beetle.

The human brain is clearly of vast, perhaps infinite, complexity — and this is without even introducing concepts such as “the mind” or “the soul.” Nevertheless, it is clear that the reductionists are doing their very best to “Solve the Brain” — measuring it, mapping it, and making sense of it.(source)

Are we to believe that “controlling it” has been left off the list for mere ethical reasons? Not likely.

Full paper available here.

Reading Minds and Influencing Human Behavior With Neural Dust

See similar articles to this one here, here, and here. This is technology that intelligence agencies and organized crime currently have and are using against the public. For other articles on this topic, please see here. See here for more about DARPA smart dust. See here for more about the DARPA Artificial Intelligence Control Grid. Also see here and here for biowarfare. 

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By Robert Sanders

UC Berkeley engineers have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time.

Wireless, battery-less implantable sensors could improve brain control of prosthetics, avoiding wires that go through the skull. (UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally)
Because these batteryless sensors could also be used to stimulate nerves and muscles, the technology also opens the door to “electroceuticals” to treat disorders such as epilepsy or to stimulate the immune system or tamp down inflammation.

The so-called neural dust, which the team implanted in the muscles and peripheral nerves of rats, is unique in that ultrasound is used both to power and read out the measurements. Ultrasound technology is already well-developed for hospital use, and ultrasound vibrations can penetrate nearly anywhere in the body, unlike radio waves, the researchers say.


“I think the long-term prospects for neural dust are not only within nerves and the brain, but much broader,“ said Michel Maharbiz, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and one of the study’s two main authors. “Having access to in-body telemetry has never been possible because there has been no way to put something super tiny super-deep. But now I can take a speck of nothing and park it next to a nerve or organ, your GI tract or a muscle, and read out the data.“

The sensor, 3 millimeters long and 1×1 millimeters in cross section, attached to a nerve fiber in a rat. Once implanted, the batteryless sensor is powered and the data read out by ultrasound. (Ryan Neely photo)

Maharbiz, neuroscientist Jose Carmena, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and their colleagues will report their findings in the August 3 issue of the journal Neuron.

The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube – about the size of a large grain of sand – contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on-board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber. A voltage spike in the fiber alters the circuit and the vibration of the crystal, which changes the echo detected by the ultrasound receiver, typically the same device that generates the vibrations. The slight change, called backscatter, allows them to determine the voltage.

Motes sprinkled thoughout the body

In their experiment, the UC Berkeley team powered up the passive sensors every 100 microseconds with six 540-nanosecond ultrasound pulses, which gave them a continual, real-time readout. They coated the first-generation motes – 3 millimeters long, 1 millimeter high and 4/5 millimeter thick – with surgical-grade epoxy, but they are currently building motes from biocompatible thin films which would potentially last in the body without degradation for a decade or more.

The sensor mote contains a piezoelectric crystal (silver cube) plus a simple electronic circuit that responds to the voltage across two electrodes to alter the backscatter from ultrasound pulses produced by a transducer outside the body. The voltage across the electrodes can be determined by analyzing the ultrasound backscatter.
(Ryan Neely photo)

While the experiments so far have involved the peripheral nervous system and muscles, the neural dust motes could work equally well in the central nervous system and brain to control prosthetics, the researchers say. Today’s implantable electrodes degrade within 1 to 2 years, and all connect to wires that pass through holes in the skull. Wireless sensors – dozens to a hundred – could be sealed in, avoiding infection and unwanted movement of the electrodes.

“The original goal of the neural dust project was to imagine the next generation of brain-machine interfaces, and to make it a viable clinical technology,” said neuroscience graduate student Ryan Neely. “If a paraplegic wants to control a computer or a robotic arm, you would just implant this electrode in the brain and it would last essentially a lifetime.”

In a paper published online in 2013, the researchers estimated that they could shrink the sensors down to a cube 50 microns on a side – about 2 thousandths of an inch, or half the width of a human hair. At that size, the motes could nestle up to just a few nerve axons and continually record their electrical activity.

“The beauty is that now, the sensors are small enough to have a good application in the peripheral nervous system, for bladder control or appetite suppression, for example,“ Carmena said. “The technology is not really there yet to get to the 50-micron target size, which we would need for the brain and central nervous system. Once it’s clinically proven, however, neural dust will just replace wire electrodes. This time, once you close up the brain, you’re done.“

The team is working now to miniaturize the device further, find more biocompatible materials and improve the surface transceiver that sends and receives the ultrasounds, ideally using beam-steering technology to focus the sounds waves on individual motes. They are now building little backpacks for rats to hold the ultrasound transceiver that will record data from implanted motes.

Diagram showing the components of the sensor. The entire device is covered in a biocompatible gel.

They’re also working to expand the motes’ ability to detect non-electrical signals, such as oxygen or hormone levels.

“The vision is to implant these neural dust motes anywhere in the body, and have a patch over the implanted site send ultrasonic waves to wake up and receive necessary information from the motes for the desired therapy you want,” said Dongjin Seo, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer sciences. “Eventually you would use multiple implants and one patch that would ping each implant individually, or all simultaneously.”

Ultrasound vs radio

Maharbiz and Carmena conceived of the idea of neural dust about five years ago, but attempts to power an implantable device and read out the data using radio waves were disappointing. Radio attenuates very quickly with distance in tissue, so communicating with devices deep in the body would be difficult without using potentially damaging high-intensity radiation.

A sensor implanted on a peripheral nerve is powered and interrogated by an ultrasound transducer. The backscatter signal carries information about the voltage across the sensor’s two electrodes. The ‘dust’ mote was pinged every 100 microseconds with six 540-nanosecond ultrasound pulses.

Marharbiz hit on the idea of ultrasound, and in 2013 published a paper with Carmena, Seo and their colleagues describing how such a system might work. “Our first study demonstrated that the fundamental physics of ultrasound allowed for very, very small implants that could record and communicate neural data,” said Maharbiz. He and his students have now created that system.

“Ultrasound is much more efficient when you are targeting devices that are on the millimeter scale or smaller and that are embedded deep in the body,” Seo said. “You can get a lot of power into it and a lot more efficient transfer of energy and communication when using ultrasound as opposed to electromagnetic waves, which has been the go-to method for wirelessly transmitting power to miniature implants”

“Now that you have a reliable, minimally invasive neural pickup in your body, the technology could become the driver for a whole gamut of applications, things that today don’t even exist,“ Carmena said.

Other co-authors of the Neuron paper are graduate student Konlin Shen, undergraduate Utkarsh Singhal and UC Berkeley professors Elad Alon and Jan Rabaey. The work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense.

Artificial Intelligence Manufactures Reality by Modeling, Simulating, and Stimulating your Mind

Just as I said here, here, here and here. See here for DARPA Smart Dust and here for DARPA guinea pigs. See here and here for more about classified technology.  See here for slavery by satellite - a must read article from academics.

   

DARPA Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology

 

DARPA's Control Grid

This is an important document that everyone MUST read. It was written about Eben Moglen, see his lecture in this must see video about "The Inevitable Problems of Technology: World Surveillance and the Totalitarian Technocracy." 

Everything in the video below is from government documents. You might want to pause it every once in a while to read it all. 

More Reports of Microwave Weapons and Sonic Weapons

See this post too. Apparently, no one cares about this in Canada, including the RCMP and CSIS. There is evidence of it being used way back to the 70's.  (Also see here for old tests done using soundwaves.) Some of these methods do not need to be in a car or a backpack, they can be done from hundreds of miles away and from space. 

Brain Implants ‘Could Lead to Hackers Controlling Your Mind,’ Scientists Warn

Elon Musk isn’t content with conquering space with Space X, revolutionizing transport with Hyperloop and making tons of money with his Tesla electric car.

One of his companies aims to create a Matrix-style ‘brain implant’ to plug humans directly into machines. It’s a leap forward which could lead to humans merging with machines – but a group of neuroscientists has warned that brain scans, brain implants and related technologies could have terrifying side effects.

In a letter in the scientific journal Nature this week, 27 top neuroscientists highlighted some of the risks of the technology. The scientists pointed out that some people who have had brain implants report feeling an ‘altered sense of identity. The researchers write, ‘The technology could also exacerbate social inequalities and offer corporations, hackers, governments or anyone else new ways to exploit and manipulate people,.

‘It could profoundly alter some core human characteristics: private mental life, individual agency and an understanding of individuals as entities bound by their bodies.’ Algorithms that are used to target advertising, calculate insurance premiums or match potential partners will be considerably more powerful if they draw on neural information — for instance, activity patterns from neurons associated with certain states of attention.

‘And neural devices connected to the Internet open up the possibility of individuals or organizations (hackers, corporations or government agencies) tracking or even manipulating an individual’s mental experience.