Which rights have been proposed to protect the mind, and where does mental privacy sit among them? · Grey Matter

Ienca and Andorno proposed four rights in 2017: cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental integrity and psychological continuity.


Which rights have been proposed to protect the mind, and where does mental privacy sit among them?

Ienca and Andorno proposed four rights in 2017: cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental integrity and psychological continuity. The group around Rafael Yuste, which later founded the NeuroRights Foundation, proposes five: mental privacy, personal identity, free will, fair access to mental augmentation and protection from algorithmic bias. Mental privacy is the one shared by every list and the one closest to law, since it can build on existing data protection, while the rights that protect identity and free will address devices that write to the brain and are harder to define.