Establishment and Penetrating Protection of Neural Rights against the Background of Brain-computer Interfaces
In recent years,digital technologies have been constantly updated and iterated,and neural technology products represented by brain-computer interfaces are moving from the laboratory to people's daily life.While improving people's life and enhancing human body function,neurotechnology products bring many legal risks and ethical crises.It is necessary to find reasonable legal regulation methods to avoid the risks while exploring the value of neural technology.However,most of the existing studies only focus on a single risk and do not put forward a systematic legal regulation scheme,do not find a balance between technological innovation and risk aversion,and cannot get out of the Collingridge dilemma faced by neural technologies.Only by finding the legal solution to solve the dilemma can we promote the healthy development of neural technologies.We search and read relevant literature from the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI)database,Duxiu database Wanfang database,and HeinOnline database,and relevant written judgments from the China Judgements Online and PKULAW database.We also carry out surveys in Internet companies and emerging neurotech companies,aiming to find the merits and demerits of the existing theoretical research results,understand the judgment principles of cases of judicial practice,and gain insight into the actual situation of technological development and legal needs.A comprehensive approach of comparative study,empirical study,and case study is adopted to find a Chinese solution to balance technological innovation and risk avoidance.Citizens should be granted neural rights,including the rights to cognitive freedom,spiritual privacy,spiritual integrity and psychological continuity.As digital human rights,neural rights should contain the content of both public law rights and private law rights.However,traditional rights cannot fully include neural rights,highlighting the intergenerational gap between norms and emerging technologies.In this regard,the barriers between the digital society,physical society,and different legal departments should be penetrated,and the domain law of protecting neural rights should be shaped.At the level of private law,neural rights can be protected by reasonably explaining the general personality rights and applying specific personality rights similarly,and neural rights can be incorporated into the personality rights system in the civil code in the future.At the public law level,the government should fully fulfill the national obligation to protect neural rights,urge enterprises to fulfill the compliance obligations,and standardize the citizens'rational use of neural technology products.At the level of criminal law,data crime,information crime,and personal crime are connected to shape the crime system of protecting neural rights.This paper mainly expands on previous research in the following two aspects.First,it is necessary to upgrade the neural rights to digital human rights,so that the neural rights are no longer limited to private law rights,but a comprehensive basic human rights including private law rights and public law rights.Second,we can expand the legal protection method of neural rights,adopt the penetrating protection mode,break down the barriers between physical space and digital space,play the front-end risk prevention regulation function of enterprise compliance,the middle-end behavior restraint function of administrative law,and the back-end outcome evaluation function of criminal law,shaping the systematic protection mechanism of neural rights.This paper reveals the national policy attitudes to the development of neural technology and brain-computer interface products,namely,to encourage innovation while avoiding risks,promoting Chinese science and technology enterprises"go out",obtain the advantageous competitiveness of advanced technology and the international discourse power,and export the Chinese solution to control the neural technology risks to the international academic circles.
neural rightsdigital human rightspublic law rightsprivate law rightsbrain-computer interface
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