What does Chile's 2021 constitutional amendment protect? · Grey Matter

Law 21.383, approved unanimously and enacted in October 2021, amended the article of Chile's constitution on the right to life and to physical and psychological integrity.

What does Chile's 2021 constitutional amendment protect?

Law 21.383, approved unanimously and enacted in October 2021, amended the article of Chile's constitution on the right to life and to physical and psychological integrity. It states that scientific and technological development will serve people and respect their life and physical and psychological integrity, and that the law will regulate the conditions of its use on people, with particular care to protect brain activity and the information derived from it. That made Chile the first country to give brain activity and neural data constitutional protection, the first neuroright written into a constitution.