Colorado law bans commercial misuse of people's brain data and thoughts

Colorado now protects data on biological, genetic, biochemical, physiological, or neural properties

(a) “Biological data”, which is data generated by the technological processing, measurement, or analysis of an individual’s biological, genetic, biochemical, physiological, or neural properties, compositions, or activities or of an individual’s body or bodily functions, which data is used or intended to be used, singly or in combination with other personal data, for identification purposes; and
(b) “Neural data”, which is information that is generated by the measurement of the activity of an individual’s central or peripheral nervous systems and that can be processed by or with the assistance of a device.

genetic data is included.
This is much better than described in the OP or NYT. EEG recordings are more akin to an out of focus low res movie of a person. It isn’t remotely as personal as genetic information. This could become a really important bill

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