SB 44: Brain-computer interfaces: neural data.

The bill aims to regulate the use of neural data collected through brain-computer interfaces. A covered business must use neural data only for the purpose it was initially collected, and delete it when the purpose is accomplished. This bill further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, which established the California Privacy Protection Agency to enforce the CCPA. The bill defines a covered business as a person who makes available a brain-computer interface to a person in the state, and a brain-computer interface as a system allowing direct communication and control between a person's brain and an external device.