“App Stores for the Brain: Privacy and Security in Brain-Computer Interfaces” recently won the Best Paper award at the 2014 International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science and Technology.

This collaboration between Tech Policy Lab Student Scholar Tamara Bonaci, UW Biorobotics Lab co-Director Howard Chizeck and Tech Policy Lab Co-Director Ryan Calo identifies privacy and security issues arising from possible misuse or inappropriate use of brain-computer interfaces (BCI). In particular, they explore how current and emerging non-invasive BCI platforms can be used to extract private information, and suggest an interdisciplinary approach to mitigating this problem.