Bertoni Joins Experts in Berlin to Inform UN Human Rights Guidelines on Neurotechnology

May 2025 – Director of our Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Prof. Eduardo Bertoni, was invited to be part of a workshop in May in Berlin organized by the research group PRIVETDIS (Mental privacy, neurotechnology and disability: ethical, legal and social aspects) with members of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee and the University of Hamburg, in cooperation with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), and the Research Hub Neuroethics, with financial support by the German Ministry of Education and Research and ERA-NET Neuron. The workshop goal was to discuss and clarify some key issues of privacy and data protection in the context of neurotechnology that may be relevant for the process of drafting “a set of recommended guidelines for applying the existing human rights framework to the conception, design, development, testing, use and deployment of neurotechnologies”, as requested by the Human Rights Council in Resolution A/HRC/RES/58/61. Such guidelines aim at informing States on how their normative and institutional frameworks may be developed to ensure human rights are ‘effectively respected, protected and fulfilled in practice.