As innovation rapidly changes the workplace and reinvents traditional ways of working, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned of the dire consequences of newly emerging neurotechnologies discriminating against employees.

Neurotechnology is already regulated in the healthcare sector, where it is used to predict, diagnose, and treat complex physical and mental illnesses, but it is widely predicted that technology monitoring brain and nervous system data will become more widespread over the next decade, including in the workplace.