Protecting neuro-rights, privacy, and bodily autonomy in the face of emerging brain-computer technologies.
The Anti-Surveillance 5K is organized to raise awareness and funds to research, document, and lobby against invasive neurotechnologies and unchecked surveillance practices. We believe in defending individual privacy, bodily autonomy, and neuro-rights — the right to mental privacy, cognitive liberty, and the freedom from non-consensual manipulation of brain function.
Funds raised through registrations, sponsorships, and merchandise are used to support:
We aim to build broad support across the political spectrum — uniting left and right around the fundamental protection of mental privacy.
Research and experiments in non-spoken / “pre-speech” neural decoding have explored ways to interpret internal speech signals and short-range neural signals that could someday enable communication without vocalization. For background reading, see this overview: DARPA’s Silent Talk — Medium article.
The NESD program focused on developing high-resolution neural interfaces that can read and write neural activity related to vision and hearing and explored algorithms for fine-grained neural interfacing. See DARPA’s program page and background on implantable neural interfaces:
N3 combined insights from non-invasive and minimally invasive research with new approaches to body-wide read/write capability (including non-surgical and nano-scale concepts). DARPA’s program overview explains the goals and scope: DARPA — Next-Generation N3 Overview.
Notable program developments:
We link and reference primary sources where possible to keep the public record transparent.
Academic and experimental work has shown surprising control and readout fidelity in lab settings — such as neural control in animal models with fine motor output: Nature — neural control study.
Demonstrations of brain-to-brain communication (experimental, proof-of-concept projects) have also been funded for exploratory research (for example, work at Rice received DARPA support): Rice University — brain-to-brain demo.
“Neuro-rights” is the set of legal and ethical protections aimed at preventing non-consensual access to, modification of, or exploitation of a person’s mental states or neural data. Our core asks:
We encourage policymakers to treat neuro-right protections as a cross-partisan civil liberties issue — one that safeguards basic human dignity regardless of political affiliation.
Transparency is important. Donations, sponsorships, and registration revenue will be allocated to:
We publish periodic reports on receipts and expenditures and make our research summary public to ensure accountability.
Join us — whether you support, volunteer, sponsor, or simply want to stay informed. We need people from all backgrounds to protect mental privacy.