Jonathan Moens at the New York Times:
The scenarios sound like science fiction: Police officers accessing data contained in suspects’ brains to forcefully extract information, or to predict if offenders might plan to commit future crimes.
But the secretary general of the United Nations warned on Thursday for the first time that neurotechnologies are advancing so rapidly that governments’ ability to access and manipulate people’s brains could one day pose a threat to fundamental human rights.
The abuse of future technologies, Secretary General António Guterres warned, could lead to arbitrary detentions, the alteration of people’s mental states and infringements on privacy.
“Neurotechnology, including new and emerging forms, raises profound human rights challenges when applied to the administration of justice,” the secretary general wrote.
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