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A Neurotech Future: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues | Multi-disciplinary Online Workshop at Queen's University, Kingston | April 22-23, 2021

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💥Video of the April 22 webinar "A Neurotech Future: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues" is now available on our website. Check it out if you missed the conference, missed some sessions, or just wish to review. https://t.co/bGQ9UlaF6w
#ANeurotechFuture #neuroethics

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Emerging communication neurotechnology has the potential to be transformative for people with severe communication disabilities. Our comment regarding design considerations to ensure this tech can be used for legally consequential communications is now out in @NatRevNeurosci!

[Maria @mariaisdopamine]

Simultaneously, the most interesting & anxiety-inducing hour of a conference I've attended 🤯

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This conference would not have been possible without the generous donation of zoom webinar hosting by the Team at @SmithBusiness. We are so grateful to Ben and Jason who kept it running smoothly behind the scenes, and supported us throughout!

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#LiveTweet Closing Remarks from @SusanBoehnke, @drmarthabailey and David Lyon. Thank you everyone for a wonderful and stimulating day of thinking through the multi-faceted and multi-dimensional future of #neurotech.

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#LiveTweet Should govt & Big Tech work together in developing regulations & reforms? “We can’t speak of a Big Tech universally, different companies deal with these questions differently. Tech companies must proactively work and consult with governmental overseers." - Weigelt

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#LiveTweet: Panel 4 ongoing now. Perspectives from industry and government. Chaired by @graemedmoffat, we are listening to @Thumbtackhead, @beynate and @GAMSmith. Join us: https://t.co/WDxm9RlcnD #ANeurotechFuture

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#LiveTweet “As we look towards a #ANeurotechFuture, we need to engage policy-makers, civil society, academia & industry, in conversations surrounding tech development. We must be specific and clear about questions, so that we may put in place necessary guardrails.”, says Weigelt.

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#LiveTweet John Weigelt shares Microsoft’s experience of developing trustworthy computing and privacy, and highlights that privacy must be a fundamental human right. Trust and public confidence must be the basis of technological development. #ANeurotechFuture

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#LiveTweet Coming up in a few minutes: afternoon keynote by John Weigelt - NTO, Microsoft Canada. Come join us live: https://t.co/WDxm9RlcnD

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#LiveTweet “One way to approach problems of security of #neurodata early is to look at literature on cybersecurity, and see how they speak to or can be imported into the neurosecurity world.” @jnfrchandler, in the Q&A session.

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#LiveTweet “The same commercial data-exploitation that exists in other sectors are likely to extend into neurodata as well. Data consent is a fiction & too complex to meaningfully assert. Bill C-11 is disappointing as it doesn’t sufficiently respond to this changing context.”

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#LiveTweet “Data is not just a by-product of a commercial transaction. It is, by itself, a valuable commodity. This new context raises a dual regulatory challenge: how to support innovation through access to data, while also protecting individuals from abuse and exploitation”

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#LiveTweet Dr Scassa starts off by introducing Bill C-11, the data protection law, which is a long overdue reform of Canada’s private sector data protection law. It applies in the commercial context, and follows EU’s GDPR. #neurolaw #datalaw #ANeurotechFuture

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#LiveTweet “If BCI-enabled internet surfing is mixed up in the accidental downloading of illegal content, or emission of illegal speech, it opens up important questions. The nature, quality & complexity of actions will be judged to determine the intentionality.” - Dr. Chandler.

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#LiveTweet “Could neurotechnology-enabled communication satisfy legal requirements for consent in medical decision-making or sexual contact? Is the communicative device going to be sufficiently reliable to communicate an active & ongoing consent?” -Dr. Chandler, #ANeurotechFuture

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#LiveTweet “The legal system is, in principle, open to a wide range of assistive communication technologies. But in practice, it doesn’t work quite as smoothly as there is a high level of victimization of people with disabilities.”, said Dr. Jennifer Chandler. #ANeurotechFuture

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#LiveTweet “It’s not privacy that is dead. It is consent.” @murakamiwood. #ANeurotechFuture

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#LiveTweet Coming up in 10 mins: the #legal implications and dimensions of contemporary #neurotech led by @drmarthabailey, @TeresaScassa and @jnfrchandler. Join us: https://t.co/WDxm9RlcnD

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#LiveTweet “There are two narratives perpetuated by tech companies, one: that privacy is dead; two: that self-exposure on social media by individuals is the problem. Neither are true.” said Dr. Stinson, in the Q&A session. #ANeurotechFuture