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ReviewFrontiers in digital health2025

Cognitive frontiers: neurotechnology and global internet governance.

Roxana Radu

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Review in Frontiers in digital health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Roxana RaduBlavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article explores the largely uncharted intersection of neurotechnology and Internet governance on the international policy agenda. Neurotechnologies encompass a broad spectrum of functions and applications, from the direct recording or alteration of brain activity to the analysis of emotions and mental states through data collected from wearable devices, applications, and AI-based tools. Innovations such as cochlear implants, sleep optimisation technologies, and immersive educational tools are already available, and significant investments are made in the next generation of devices that blur the lines between mind, machine, and action, posing unprecedented challenges. While some international organisations have begun addressing the ethical and human rights implications of neurotechnology, there remains significant fragmentation and a lack of clarity regarding its integration into Internet governance. Critical issues related to neural infrastructure, standards, access to technologies, and protections for neural data have been overlooked in the 2024 Global Digital Compact and might remain off the agenda for the upcoming 20th review of the World Summit on the Information Society. This contribution underscores the urgent need to analyse the profound implications of neurotechnology, advocating for proactive measures that align with progress made across Internet governance fora, with respect to legal safeguards, multistakeholder consultations and institutional pillars.

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brain datadata protectioninternet governanceneurotechnologyprivacyvirtual reality

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PMID41459239
PMCPMC12741111

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