Human-rights foundation
Official international instrument
Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted
The declaration recognizes freedom of thought, conscience, religion, opinion, and expression as foundational human rights.
Open source ↗Rights and governance milestones
Policy timeline
A public chronology of legal, scientific, regulatory, and standards developments relevant to cognitive liberty.
Human-rights foundation
Official international treaty
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted
Article 18 protects freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; Article 19 protects opinion and expression.
Open source ↗Human-rights interpretation
Official treaty-body interpretation
General Comment No. 22
The UN Human Rights Committee describes freedom of thought and conscience as far-reaching and non-derogable even in public emergency.
Open source ↗Scientific evidence
Peer-reviewed scientific review
Facial movement and emotion inference reconsidered
A major review challenged the assumption that facial movements provide universal, reliable fingerprints of emotion.
Open source ↗Neurorights law
Enacted national law
Chile publishes constitutional neurorights reform
Chile amended constitutional language concerning physical and mental integrity and the protection of brain activity in scientific and technological development.
Open source ↗Platform governance
Enacted regional law
EU Digital Services Act enters into force
The DSA establishes transparency and accountability duties for online intermediaries, including statements of reasons and complaint mechanisms.
Open source ↗AI governance
Official standards guidance
NIST releases AI Risk Management Framework 1.0
The voluntary framework organizes AI risk governance around govern, map, measure, and manage functions.
Open source ↗Neural-data law
Enacted state law
Colorado protects biological and neural data
HB24-1058 expanded the Colorado Privacy Act to include biological data and neural data in sensitive-data protections.
Open source ↗AI regulation
Enacted regional law
EU Artificial Intelligence Act published
The regulation establishes a risk-based AI framework and prohibits specified manipulative, biometric, and emotion-inference practices.
Open source ↗Employment law
Enacted state law
Illinois Public Act 103-0804 approved
Illinois prohibited discriminatory effects from employer AI and required notice to employees when AI is used in covered employment decisions, effective January 1, 2026.
Open source ↗Neural-data law
Enacted state law
California SB-1223 chaptered
California added neural data to the definition of sensitive personal information under the CCPA.
Open source ↗AI regulation
Regulatory milestone
EU AI Act prohibited-practice rules begin applying
The first major application date includes Article 5 prohibited practices and AI-literacy duties.
Open source ↗Neurotechnology governance
Official international recommendation
UNESCO adopts Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology
The first global normative instrument in the field addresses autonomy, dignity, identity, mental privacy, freedom of thought, and brain-data protection.
Open source ↗Employment law
Enacted state law — effective date
Illinois AI employment protections take effect
Public Act 103-0804 takes effect, applying notice and anti-discrimination provisions to covered employer uses of AI.
Open source ↗Public charter development
Current policy proposal
OutrightAttack.com Charter Draft 0.3
The public draft expands to 26 articles covering mental sovereignty, monitoring, suppression, predictive classification, psychological continuity, national security, appeal, and remedies.
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