American Medical Association Backs Neural Data Privacy Regulation
The American Medical Association will support legislation and regulations to protect the privacy of individual neurological data and guard against discrimination potentially caused by neurotechnologies, the organization said Tuesday in a resolution its House of Delegates adopted.
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Resolution 503 states the organization “recognizes that neural data is information obtained by measuring the activity of a person’s central or peripheral nervous system through the use of neurotechnologies, but neural data does not include data inferred from nonneural information.”
AMA said it will oppose efforts to “broaden the consensus medical definition of neural data to include data inferred from nonneural information gathered by biosensors (including biometric devices), as this is a distinct category of data with its own independent qualities and regulatory needs.”