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NLJ this week: Neurotech, brain wave data & the law

07 June 2024
Issue: 8074 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Technology , Artificial intelligence , Privacy
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The word ‘neurotechnology’ conjures images of dystopian sci-fi landscapes, but this is an emerging area of law and you’re reading NLJ, not watching the latest Christopher Nolan screening

In the first part of a fascinating series of NLJ articles, Harry Lambert, Crown Office Chambers, covers ‘neurorights’ from a legal perspective.

For example, Lambert looks at the ‘application of monitoring, harvesting and analysing brain wave data from electroencephalograms (EEGs)’, as well as the disturbing corporate practice of ‘targeted dream incubation’.

Or how about EEG-based brain-computer-interface devices? Lambert reveals: ‘By probing whether or not you “recognise” certain faces, numbers or patterns, a computer can therefore systematically work out private information such as a home address or even, in one case, a credit card PIN!’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

NEWS
Robert Taylor of 360 Law Services warns in this week's NLJ that adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) risks entrenching disadvantage for SME law firms, unless tools are tailored to their needs
From oligarchs to cosmetic clinics, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) target journalists, activists and ordinary citizens with intimidating legal tactics. Writing in NLJ this week, Sadie Whittam of Lancaster University explores the weaponisation of litigation to silence critics
Delays and dysfunction continue to mount in the county court, as revealed in a scathing Justice Committee report and under discussion this week by NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School. Bulk claims—especially from private parking firms—are overwhelming the system, with 8,000 cases filed weekly
Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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