Brain-Computer Interface Anonymizer

A brain-computer interface (BCI), comprising:

• a signal acquisition component, configured to receive a plurality of brain neural signals based on electrical activity of a brain of a user, and wherein the plurality of brain neural signals comprise signals related to a BCI-enabled application;
• and
• a signal processing component, comprising:
• a feature extraction component, configured to determine one or more features of the plurality of brain neural signals related to the BCI-enabled application,
• a BCI anonymizer, configured to generate anonymized neural signals by at least filtering the one or more features to remove privacy-sensitive information, and
• a decoding component, configured to generate one or more application commands for the BCI-enabled application from the anonymized neural signals.

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium configured to store at least executable instructions, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by a processor of a brain-computer interface (BCI), cause the brain-computer interface to perform functions comprising:

• determining one or more features of a plurality of brain neural signals related to a BCI-enabled application;
• generating anonymized neural signals by at least filtering the one or more features to remove privacy-sensitive information;
• generating one or more application commands for the BCI-enabled application from the anonymized neural signals;
• and
• sending the one or more application commands from the brain-computer interface.