Countries go through privacy laws to protect brain data collected by devices

Kate Roder

More countries pass the laws to protect information created by a person’s brain and nervous system because technology improves the ability to open sensitive details for a person’s health, mental states, emotions and cognitive performance.

Coloradoand CaliforniaAnd Montana It is among the states that recently requested the protection of the brain data collected by devices outside the medical settings. This includes headphones, ear headphones, and other wearable consumer products that aim to improve sleep, focus and aging by measuring electrical activity and sending data to an application on user phones.

a report By Neurotights Foundation, a support group aimed at protecting people from misuse of nervous technology, I found that 29 out of 30 companies with nerve technical products that can be purchased online can access brain data and “do not provide meaningful restrictions on this access.” Almost all of them can share data with third parties.

In June, the American Medical Association He called for an increase in organization From nervous data. In April, many Democrats of the American Senate Committee for Trade, Science and Transport He asked the Federal Trade Committee To investigate whether companies are using brain data for consumers. Juliana Groen and Henderson, Deputy Director of the FTC Public Affairs Office, said that the agency had received the message but had no additional comment.

Although current devices collect relatively essential information such as sleeping cases, defenders for protecting brain data warn that future technologies, including artificial intelligence, can extract personal and sensitive information about the medical situations of people or deeper ideas.

“If you collect data today, what can you read from it after five years from now because technology is progressing very quickly?” Senator Cathy Cape, who sponsored the draft law protecting nervous data in Colorado for 2024 when she was in the parliament in the state.

As excitement and fear about building artificial intelligence, at least 28 states and Virgin Islands, USA cent A type of artificial intelligence organization separate from privacy bills that protect nervous data. President Donald Trump “A beautiful beautiful bill“It included a 10 -year pause from the states that represent laws to regulate artificial intelligence, but the Senate implemented this ruling from the budget settlement bill before voting for approval on July 1.

“The spirit of laws in Colorado, California, and Montana, Chun Bawazkky, said to protect the same nervous data, and not to regulate any algorithm or Amnesty International that it may use. Leurotights Foundation.

Bawzausky said that nerve technology and AI are walking side by side. “A lot of what these devices have promised depends on identifying patterns. Amnesty International is really leading the ability to use and the importance of patterns in brain data.”

Christine Will, A professor of neurosurgery at the University of Colorado Medical College said that the ability of artificial intelligence to determine patterns is a changing games in its field. “But a person’s nervous data contribute to the artificial intelligence training group should be voluntary. The process of adherence should be, not given.”

In 2021, Chile became the first country to adopt a constitutional amendment to nervous suffering, which gives human rights to develop nervous technology and collect nervous data, and UNESCO has said that nervous technology and artificial intelligence can pose a threat to human identity and independence.

Nervous technology can look like science fiction. Researchers used a CAP with 128 poles And the artificial intelligence model to decode electrical brain signals from ideas to speech. Two years ago, a study described how neuroscientists were rebuilt by Pink Floyd “another brick in the wall“By analyzing the brain signals of 29 patients with epilepsy who listened to the song with the electrodes planted in their brains.

The goal is to use neurological technology to help those who suffer from paralysis or speech disabilities, as well as the treatment or diagnosis of painful brain injuries and brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. Illon Musk nervous and synchronousFunded by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, among the companies that have underground clinical experiments for the devices implanted in the brain.

Pauzauskie, a hospital neurologist, began anxiety four years ago about the lack of clarity of the separation line between using nerve data. He pointed out that the devices used by his patients with epilepsy were also available for online purchase, but without protection granted by the law of health insurance and accountability in medical environments.

Pauzauskie approached KIPP two years ago in a basic meeting in his hometown of Fort Collens to propose a law to protect brain data in Colorado. He said: “The first words of her mouth that I will never forget were,” Who will be against people who have their brain data? “

Protecting brain data is one of the rare issues that unite legislators across the political corridor. The bills in California, Montana and Colorado passed by unanimously or almost unanimously. Montana’s law will enter into force in October.

The laws to protect nervous data in Colorado and California amend the public consumer privacy law for each state, while Montana’s law adds to the law of current genetic information. Colorado and Montana requires primary approval to collect or use nervous data and separate approval or the ability to cancel the subscription before detecting these data to a third party. The company must provide a means of consumers to delete their data when working in all three states.

“I want a very difficult line in the sand he says, you have this completely.” “You have to give approval. You have the right to delete it. You have full rights on this information.”

For Zolnikov, the Montana Bill is a plan for the National Nervous Data Protection Law, Pauzauskie said supported organizational efforts by groups such as Ama paves the way for more federal and state efforts.

Will agreed that federal regulations are needed in addition to the laws of new states. “I completely hope that we can reach something at the national level that can devote the nervous rights of people in the law, because I think this will be more important than we can imagine at this time.”

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