Mental privacy and neurotechnology risks

Advances in neuroscience challenge contemporary legal frameworks to protect mental privacy. Our Governing Board Member, Lukasz Szoszkiewicz, published a paper in EMBO reports, which proposes strengthening existing data protection regulations with a broad approach to safeguard neural data, as it is the coinage in which brain activity, which determines mental function, is written.

See https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-025-00505-6 for the full text.

This conceptual image was created by AI (Perplexity) following a prompt to illustrate the article’s findings.