Do neural data laws protect a raw recording, or only what is decoded from it? · Grey Matter

The raw recording, at whatever rate it was sampled.

Do neural data laws protect a raw recording, or only what is decoded from it?

The raw recording, at whatever rate it was sampled. Colorado and California define neural data as information generated by measuring the activity of the nervous system, so the protection attaches to the measurement itself, before any decoding. That choice matters because what can be extracted from a recording depends on how it was sampled and on decoders that will keep improving, so a stored recording can reveal more in a few years than it did when it was collected.