Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection
This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law. Specifically, Marc Blitz discusses the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause. He also argues that we should pay close attention to another constitutional provision that individuals generally don’t think of as protecting their privacy: The First Amendment’s freedom of speech. First Amendment values also protect our freedom of thought, and this—not simply our privacy—is what is at stake if government engaged in excessive monitoring of our minds. 
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Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection
This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law. Specifically, Marc Blitz discusses the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause. He also argues that we should pay close attention to another constitutional provision that individuals generally don’t think of as protecting their privacy: The First Amendment’s freedom of speech. First Amendment values also protect our freedom of thought, and this—not simply our privacy—is what is at stake if government engaged in excessive monitoring of our minds. 
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Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection

Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection

by Marc Jonathan Blitz
Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection
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Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection

Searching Minds by Scanning Brains: Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection

by Marc Jonathan Blitz

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This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law. Specifically, Marc Blitz discusses the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause. He also argues that we should pay close attention to another constitutional provision that individuals generally don’t think of as protecting their privacy: The First Amendment’s freedom of speech. First Amendment values also protect our freedom of thought, and this—not simply our privacy—is what is at stake if government engaged in excessive monitoring of our minds. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319500041
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 03/17/2017
Series: Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 144
File size: 432 KB

About the Author

Marc Jonathan Blitz is Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law at Oklahoma City University, USA, and series editor of Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Constitutional Puzzles (and (Neuro)technological Changes.- 3. Lie Detection, Mind Reading, and Brain Reading.- 4. The Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination and the Brain.- 5. The Fourth (and First) Amendment.- 6. Conclusion.
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