Privacy in the Age of Neuroscience: Reimagining Law, State and Market (eBook)

Neuroscience has begun to intrude deeply into what it means to be human, an intrusion that offers profound benefits but will demolish our present understanding of privacy. In Privacy in the Age of Neuroscience, David Grant argues that we need to reconceptualize privacy in a manner that will allow us to reap the rewards of neuroscience while still protecting our privacy and, ultimately, our humanity. Grant delves into our relationship with technology, the latest in what he describes as a historical series of 'magnitudes', following Deity, the State and the Market, proposing the idea that, for this new magnitude (Technology), we must control rather than be subjected to it. In this provocative work, Grant unveils a radical account of privacy and an equally radical proposal to create the social infrastructure we need to support it.

• Offers a new account of privacy based on a reappraisal of the physical and psychological space of privacy
• Shows why present theories of privacy are inadequate as guides for resisting intrusions of neural technologies
• Demonstrates why public policies need to be reinvigorated to better address the deep impacts of neuroscience