Opportunity, Prospects, and Expected Advantages of a Proposal for the Legal Prohibition of Neurodata Trade in the European Context

Abstract

The expansion of commercial neurotechnologies has generated a massive neurodata market without specific regulation. rain information accumulation through commercial transactions represents a risk compromising personal autonomy, democracy, and free competition. It proposes prohibiting neurodata trade by declaring it res extra commercium. This prohibition would not prevent consensual obtaining for legitimate purposes nor donation for research, but rather commodification enabling oligopolistic concentration. Implementation would combine administrative prohibition with criminal prosecution, coordinated at European level as minimum significant space for effectiveness.