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- Colorado lawmakers have signed a bill aimed at protecting privacy in the burgeoning field of neurotech.
- The act expands the definition of "sensitive" data to include our neural information.
- The law came in response to the largely unregulated consumer neurotechnology industry.
Lawmakers in Colorado have passed a law aimed at protecting a new frontier in privacy: your brain activity.
Gov. Jared Polis signed the new law after it passed in the Colorado House by a vote of 61-to-1, and in the Senate 34-to-0.
The bill takes aim at the growing neurotechnology industry.
In simple terms, the Protect Privacy of Biological Data Act expands the definition of "sensitive data" in the state's privacy laws to encompass biological and neural data.