"Neuroprivacy. You can now read the mind and implant memories"

Chile could become the first country to pass legislation to protect mental privacy

“Regulations must evolve quickly,” warns Guido Girardi, senator and president of the Commission, and one of the initiators of the legislation.

"There are already technologies that can directly read the brain, decipher what people are thinking and feeling, but also implant feelings that are not one’s own.”

Chile is not the only country concerned about the legal vacuum that surrounds neurotechnologies.

Spain, US, France, and more recently, Argentina, have begun to study the issue.

The United Nations and the Organization of American States have also taken a keen interest in the subject.

https://en.unesco.org/courier/2022-1/chile-pioneering-protection-neurorights#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20Chile's%20Senate%20unanimously,law%20by%20the%20country's%20president

At the same time, a constitutional reform to amend Article 19 of the Magna Carta, the country's constitution, is being considered to

“protect the integrity and mental indemnity of the brain from the advances and capacities developed by neurotechnologies”.