Systems and techniques now exist that can be refined into monitoring the brains of all citizens.

An ever-growing list of brain activity monitoring technologies, agencies and programs have given rise to the notion of using what comes out of such ventures – mind reading abilities – for national security threat prevention via pre-crime surveillance.

SFGate reported Tuesday that 'we may need to rethink freedom of thought' due to mind reading nanotech, while The Information reported Monday that AI is now being used to read the mind, leading to 'consequences from the data gold rush'.