Neurotech, neuroethics and brain data in context: Are “neurorights” the way to mental privacy?

This article was originally published on The Conversation. To Learn More: Brain Data in Context: Are New Rights the Way to Mental and Brain Privacy? (AJOB Neuroscience). From the Abstract: The potential to collect brain data more directly, with higher resolution, and in greater amounts has heightened worries about mental and brain privacy … To better understand the privacy stakes of brain data, we suggest the use of a conceptual framework from information ethics, Helen Nissenbaum’s “contextual integrity” theory. To illustrate the importance of context, we examine neurotechnologies and the information flows they produce in three familiar contexts—healthcare and medical research, criminal justice, and consumer marketing. We argue that by emphasizing what is distinct about brain privacy issues, rather than what they share with other data privacy concerns, risks weakening broader efforts to enact more robust privacy law and policy. News in Context: Studies identify key ethical concerns raised by invasive and non-invasive neurotechnologies Empowering 8 Billion Minds via Ethical Development and Adoption of Neurotechnologies We need to rethink neuroscience. And you can help us The post Neurotech, neuroethics and brain data in context: Are “neurorights” the way to mental privacy? appeared first on SharpBrains.
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