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A Legal Infrastructure for

Neurosecurity, National Security & Cognitive Liberty

Sander Rabin MD JDThe Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence, Inc.

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New York Chapter of the Internet Society Disruptive Technologies in NYC

New York Chapter Federal Communications Bar Association

11 November 2014

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Amped

Daniel H. Wilson, Amped (2012) &

Benedict Carey, Probing Brain’s Depth, Trying to Aid Memory. New York Times, July 9, 2014

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Neuroprostheses | Neuroenhancement

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Neuroimaging | Neurodiagnostics

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What Neurodata Makes Possible

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Neuromarketing

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Neuropolitics

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Neurosurveillance | Intention Algorithms

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Neurowarfare

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Beyond cyberwarfare, looms mind warfare, targeting brain, cognition, emotion, behavior

Neurotechnology | National Security

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‘Neuroflage’

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Physical Enhancement

Cognitive Enhancement

Radical Life Extension

Neurotechnology | Transhumanism?

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Transjewelry

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MORPHOLOGICAL FREEDOM

PARTICIPANT EVOLUTION

PROCREATIVE LIBERTY

COGNITIVE LIBERTY

TECHNOLOGICAL SELF DETERMINATION

RADICAL LIFE EXTENSION

Four Pillars of Transhuman Law

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Cognitive Liberty

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Meninges as Last Privacy Barrier

Neuroimaging used to study aspects of personality & intelligence.

Use of neuroimaging to elicit psychological information is already possible, but to limited extent

Neuroprivacy is privacy of mental and cerebral functioning elicited by brain imaging & other neurodiagnostic techniques

Some researchers claim to discern certain unconscious preferences or to detect deception based on neuroimaging

Neuroprivacy

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Neurohacking | Medical Neurosecurity

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Medical hardware vulnerable to life-threatening security breaches

Vulnerability increases as hardware connected to

Internet of Things

Neurosecurity |Medical Cybersecurity | Internet of Things

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Companies assess dangers of device misuse in design stage

medical devices & systems detect, log & react to malware attacks

Companies justify security choices in premarket submissions

Companies report cybersecurity issues & incidents

FDA guidance nonbinding

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FDA on Medical Cybersecurity

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Neurotechnology:

to access, manipulate & control neuropsychiatric structures & functions for

national defense or military objective

to identify political & military threats to neuropsychiatric information & function

to preserve integrity of neuropsychiatric information & function

Expanded Neurosecurity

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Military Neuroenhancement

Uniform Code of Military Justice: no autonomy to decline enhancement

NeuroRx to reduce fatigue and enhance alertness

Brain-computer interfaces for controlling vehicles; detecting battlefield dangers; operating

exoskeletons

National Security I

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Military Neuromodulation

Portable neurotech to detect neuro processes & feed information to in-helmet transcranial magnetic

stimulation to suppress or enhance brain function

National Security II

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Neurointerrogation

Are there cognitive liberty limits to use of neurotech in these situations?

Neurotech also being marketed for advertising, insurance fraud, and criminal

justice, e.g., fMRI-based lie detection services

Neurotech and neuroRx being investigated for lie detection; e.g., EEG ‘brain

fingerprinting’ to confirm deception

National Security III

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Neuroprivacy

No law for cognitive liberty, neuroprivacy, neurosecurity in

medicine, national security, employment, insurance, etc.

Inadequate legal framework to protect privacy of brain imaging

data & interpretation

No case law holdings on neuroprivacy

State of the Law

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Default Future: Laissez Faire | Created Future: Rule of Law

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What kind of legal infrastructure is needed to receive, nurture, and regulate positively disruptive technologies?

Law that Anticipates

Law that Thinks Ahead

MEDICAL NEUROSECURITY: Require cyberprotection and Preemptive design

MEDICAL NEUROSECURITY: Require hardware to software life cycle matching

MEDICAL NEUROSECURITY: Create international cybersecurity standards

NEUROENHANCEMENT: Regulation |Children | Enforceability | Criminalization

DEFENSE NEUROSECURITY: Neurotech R&D | Neurotech global surveillance

DEFENSE NEUROSECURITY: Transparent preparation, resilience, preemption

DEFENSE NEUROSECURITY: Policies and laws sensitive ethical issues

DEFENSE NEUROSECURITY: Create criteria for neurotech interrogations

Positive Legal Infrastructure Principles

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Sander Rabin MD JD

The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence

An NPO for Law and Human Enhancement Enabling Technologylegal #heet

The Future of our Minds, Bodies, and Genomes

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