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Neurotechnology & the law: other jurisdictions

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In Part 4 of this series, Harry Lambert & Bradley John-Davis examine the global approach to protecting access to the data in our brains
  • Explains that the UK is lagging behind some other parts of the world in legislating to protect neurorights. Latin America is leading the way.
  • Goes on to examine the legal protection of neurorights in other parts of Latin America, and laws passed in the US, asking how long these protections will take to reach the UK.

In the previous articles in this series, we have considered the already astonishingly broad reach of neurotechnology and how it has the potential to touch almost all areas of the law. We noted, in our first article, how phenomenally under-prepared our legal framework is to deal with these new breeds of neurotechnology and the new legal issues that they will inevitably create (see (‘Neurotechnology & the law’, NLJ, 7 June 2024, pp18-21)). This is because, until now, there had

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