It was an easy decision for J. Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old quadriplegic living in Southern California, to undergo a craniotomy in 2024. The operation, which involved inserting 384 electrodes in his brain and a large titanium plate in his skull, allows researchers to record data about how his neurons operate, potentially helping future paralysis patients. The hard part, Buckwalter says, has been giving up the right to access and own his neural data and feel assured that it will be kept priv
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If you open your devices with a fingerprint or face scan, you are probably OK with tech companies having some of your biological data. Now, the rise of neurotech wearables is putting your brainwaves into question. On 17 April 2024, the governor of Colorado signed a bill expanding the state's existing privacy law to include neural data or brain activity. The bill added brainwaves under the umbrella of biological data, which it defined as "data generated by the technological processing, measure
