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Technology

May 6, 2026

Your brain data is already being collected. The law has not caught up.

Neuroethics is rapidly emerging as a critical but underdeveloped field in law and policy, leaving the legal profession unprepared for the fast-moving rise of neural data collection, fragmented state regulation, and the coming challenges of neurotechnology across privacy, employment, IP and constitutional law.

John E. Wehrli

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

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Your brain data is already being collected. The law has not caught up.
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Early in April I returned from the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, where I served as an invited delegate to Asilomar for the Brain and Mind 2026--a convening organized by BrainMind that brought neuroscientists, ethicists, investors, clinicians and lawyers together to build governance infrastructure for neurotechnology. I participated in two working groups charged with drafting practical tools--pre-investment due diligence standards and neural data go...

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