Ethical & Legal Issues with the Brain-Based Definition of Death from an Organ Donation Perspective. Jennifer Chandler, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section, University of Ottawa & Christy Simpson, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University & Canadian Blood Services.
The Law and Ethics of Reading the Mind from Brain Data.
Musk’s Neuralink recently announced a trial of its implanted brain-computer interface (BCI) will start soon in Toronto. BCIs and other devices that monitor and decode brain activity offer promising possibilities for people with severe motor disabilities, including people unable to communicate. This is not all that is now being done with the interpretation of brain activity data – in some places, this data is being used in criminal investigations to identify guilty knowledge.A host of questions are now arising about the nature of the link between brain activity data and mental states, and whether privacy laws and concepts are up to the task of a future in which we access the mind in this new way.
