Writing in PC Magazine, Kate Irwin reports that California has updated its Consumer Privacy Protection Act to include neural data as a type of protected personal data. With the growth of applications that collect brain wave data this updated regulation allows consumers to control the data being collected and to limit sharing or sale of such data. Understanding and adhering to such regulations will be increasingly important for data analysts.
It is wild to me that this is just now in the state legislature. I would think that there should be federal action on neural data. This leads me to a much larger question. Will U.S. laws and regulations ever be ahead or on par with tech and industry? Kinda a which comes first scenario I guess, the chicken or the egg.