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Vermont lawmaker introduces H.866 to establish 'neurological rights' for neurotechnology
Summary
Rep. Gina introduced H.866 to the House Commerce & Economic Development Committee on April 2, 2025, proposing statutory protections for mental and neural data privacy, freedom of thought, and limits on neurotechnological interventions; no committee action or vote was recorded.
Representative Gina introduced H.866, ‘‘an act relating to neurological rights,’’ to the Vermont House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. The bill, as she read its purpose to the committee, would recognize an individual’s right to mental and neural data privacy, freedom of thought and cognitive liberty, a right to change decisions regarding neurotechnology, and protection from unauthorized access, manipulation or alteration of brain activity.
The bill summary read to the committee says in part that individuals ‘‘have the right to mental and neural data privacy, the freedom of thought, cognitive liberty…to be afforded protection from neurotechnological interventions of the mind and from unauthorized access to or manipulation of their brain…
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