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directions: Add potential statements to the bottom of the list. Comment underneath each statement with support, constructive critique, or alternate versions.
Proposed statements
Legal Agency
A person has a right to augment their brain in ways that they deem healthy and desirable.
Brain augmentation technology must be legally classified as an aspect of the subject’s body.
As such, hardware, software, and on-device data, may not be subject to unreasonable search and seizure.
Technological Agency
The user must be able to turn off or disconnect the device, at the level of both software and hardware.
The technology must only initiate outgoing connection at user request.
Neither the hardware nor the software needed to operate basic functions may be capable of being remotely disabled.
The technology must reveal any ongoing connections to the outside world. The technology must maintain a user-accessible record of any such interactions.
Biological Agency
The right of removal
The right of disconnection
The right of upgrade
The right to be informed about the technological life-cycle
The right to be informed about the biological ramifications
Additional proposed statements?
Transparency of brain augmentation service providers capabilities