Neurorights: Time to Discuss Rights to Mental Privacy and Integrity

The aim of this paper is to describe how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and deep learning can influence fundamental rights such as privacy and integrity. The authors consider the current protection of these rights the international level with a focus on Russian and European legislation. The authors also discuss whether AI poses a new threat to the protection of fundamental rights, and whether new laws should be established to deal with those violations. The study involves qualitative research methods, aimed at understanding people’s beliefs, experience, attitudes, behaviour, their interactions with social media and AI, as well as the analysis of sources of international and domestic law. The results have implications for new well-being interventions which look at the relationship between the internet and AI and their influence on individual privacy and mental integrity. The authors attempt to evaluate whether the right to privacy requires any special protection in the age of artificial intelligence, and if so, what do we mean by rights to mental privacy and integrity?