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In recent times, Brain Computer Interface (BCI) applications have progressed as biometric authentication systems. Existing systems each follow the fundamental concepts of ensuring a user can be successfully authenticated into it. This comes with the complexity of developing systems that prevent a user’s data from being at risk. Furthermore, with each new integration to make these systems more secure, they may lead to ethical concerns that should be discussed to better understand if they will be beneficial to individuals in their daily life. The discussion of ethical concerns of BCI authentication systems is the primary purpose of this paper. We also present an implemented prototype and discuss its potential ethical concerns that could be addressed in future work.
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Lewis, T., Agarwal, R., Andujar, M. (2023). An Ethical Discussion on BCI-Based Authentication. In: Rousseau, JJ., Kapralos, B. (eds) Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges. ICPR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37745-7_12
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