Sebastian Reul of Germany looks up as he competes during the Brain-Computer Interface Race (BCI) at the Cybathlon Championships in Kloten, Switzerland October 8, 2016. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann
As tech companies and scientists invest in technology that interacts with our brains, some experts say we’re far from being able to map moods and thoughts in a meaningful way. Others, however, say brain data is the next frontier of privacy, and we need to pass laws to protect our brain data now.Sebastian Reul of Germany looks up as he competes during the Brain-Computer Interface Race in Switzerland in 2016.
Others, however, say brain data is the next frontier of privacy, and we need to pass laws to protect our brain data now. Jared Genser, a human rights lawyer and co-founder of the Neurorights Foundation, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal that Californians' brains are a lot safer after lawmakers updated the state's consumer protection legislation to include neural data.The Neurorights Foundation, born from a three-day academic workshop at Columbia University in 2017, advocates for legislation to protect the information inside our brains.
She says her team's recommendations, which will be published soon, focus less on imposing laws and regulations, and more on developing a framework of shared values to guide work in this field. "Ethicists are really, you know, dining out on the worry, and the neurotechnology start-ups are benefiting from the hype," he said.
It's the kind of information he says you can more reliably glean from more commonplace technology, like surveillance cameras and smart phones, which he says we should be "far more concerned about."
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