The goal is to protect people's mental privacy and the right to identity. These concepts include the protection of thoughts, medical data from users' brains, and even the confidentiality of organ transplant treatment.
In Chile, there is an effort to integrate neuro-rights into the Constitution after neuroscientist Rafael Yuste of Columbia University raised the issue globally. One of the strengths of this legislation is that it anticipates future technologies and the potential risks they entail.
One of the technologies under investigation is connecting the brain to external devices, such as prosthetics for people who have had parts of their body amputated. There are also technologies like Facebook that sell the translation of words from the brain to the computer without the need to verbalize them. There are also experiments that include information linked to artificial intelligence.
Facebook's neurotechnology lab presents a prototype that can read some words from our minds. It is very complicated to implement this globally, as it mixes scientific components with other debates that are still being worked on. Among them, privacy and data protection. Chile still does not have an updated data protection law, as the current one dates back to 1999.
The important thing is that both Chile and other countries have data protection regulations and an authority to enforce them.