Thursday, January 13, 2022

Neuro-rights as defense against advancement of neurotechnology

Whether in constitutional texts or in specific legislation, governments, legislators and specialists seek to put a limit on the use of new developments linked to influencing the brain or trapping data contained in it. Chile took the first step with two specific regulations.

In recent months, Chile took important steps in the formation of a legal ecosystem that regulates the relationship of humans with technological deployment, known colloquially as neuro-rights. Each of these steps involved a debate between those in favor of legislating in that field and those who opposed it for various reasons, one of them the lack of opportunity for discussion in the midst of the most acute social crisis in that country of the last 50 years.

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