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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aisha Down

Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology

An illustration of a human head and brain with microchip-like connections firing
The Unesco standards define a new category of data, ‘neural data’, and suggest guidelines governing its protection. Photograph: MattLphotography/Alamy

It is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.

Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a bit of a wild west”.

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