Main Issue
Neurowearables
Neural universal products: phones, watches, keyboards, are set to be applied to how we interact with the world now, and over the next 5 to 10 years.
Experts have identified 3 key areas ( Source: CONSIDERATI ):
- Mental integrity: The first is mental integrity, where consumer EEG headsets could enable third-party inference of emotional states for targeted advertising.
- Cognitive liberty: Second is cognitive liberty, where workplace neurotech monitoring risks coercive productivity optimization.
- Data ownership: Finally, neural data ownership remains a concern, as 78% of consumer neurotech terms allow the resale of anonymized brain patterns to third parties.
Just like our mobile phones it's time to learn what neurotechnologies are, and how to safely live with them.
The picture below is a walkthrough of the taxonomy of neurotechnology focusing on neurowearables differentiation.
- Privacy: Neurotechnology, Neurodata, and all Neurowearables does NOT have a UK legal definition or specific legislation, how do we hold those who misuse it accountable?
Walk through talk through of poster (The begins of how to tell the difference medical and non-medical devices)
The video tries to help you to understand the complicated market of neurowearables. Surrounding medical or non-medical device differentiation.
- Remember: this is currently the only way to establish if it is a medical and no medical device to determine what base level protections you have when it comes to your brain data.
Video: Emotive- Medical or non-medical: Terms and conditions, privacy policy, marketing information analysis.
Neurowearables
Wearable neurotechnology is coming to consumer facing products as input devices gathering memories (brains data) to operate.
- There is NO explicit regulation or law surrounding the technologies data.
- There is currently: only soft law and some protection from the GDPR surrounding neurowearables.
- There will be widespread use of neurotechnologies. Normalising use will be happening over the next 5 years. Yet, with silly use, there is no regulation or law.
- The devices harvest memories (brain data) to function.
- The devices/Third parties will use as much as they can now.
- The data WILL be revisited time and time again to gather more information from it.
- The devices will NOT just be limited to medical use, or for medical reasons.
- The MAJOR problem will be you may not know how to retrieve or recover your data once you sign the contracts, which are the terms and conditions, privacy policy, and explicit consent by use.
23andMe DNA data loss, brain data (memories) could be lost in the same way too!
Video: Screen recording of 23andMe explanation
What does misuse look like for neural data (memories)?
Human rights Act 7(1). No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence under national or international law at the time that it was committed.
- No law, no way to hold misuse accountable: Without law we will struggle to understand the grey areas.