Technological advances “are making it easier than ever to measure, interpret and even reconstruct brain activity,” while the proliferation of wearables is creating “more ways to map our brainwaves than ever before,” and that means more opportunities for companies to mine that data, Gizmodo reports. This presents an interesting question: Who owns brain data? Neuro-Ethicist Paul Roote Wolp recently stressed the importance of setting up ground rules to protect cognitive privacy. For example, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is beginning to be used for lie detection, the report states, and “it’s not unreasonable to expect police and other actors to use cognitive data in the future” to determine innocence or guilt.
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