Hackers will be unstoppable by 2020

What if, in 2020, wearable devices did not care about how many steps you took, and instead were concerned with your real-time emotional state?

With networked devices tracking hormone levels, heart rates, facial expressions, voice tone and more, the Internet could become a vast system of “emotion readers,” touching the most intimate aspects of human psychology.

What if these technologies allowed people’s underlying mental, emotional and physical states to be tracked – and manipulated?

Whether for blackmail, “revenge porn” or other motives, cybercriminals and hostile governments in this world would find new ways to exploit data about emotion. The terms of cybersecurity would be redefined, as it became more important for people to manage and protect how their emotions and mindsets appeared to the monitors.

This is just one of several potential future cybersecurity scenarios dreamed up by a group of multidisciplinary experts recently. Here at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, we asked them to think about what we could see happening in the near future of 2020. For the full article click here 

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