Nanoscale brain-computer interfaces will make it possible to read and write human memory within 20 years. The moment that's possible, is biological memory still legally 'yours', or can governments, corporations, and courts demand access to it?

Neuralink-class devices are already implanted in humans and reading neural signals. The next frontier is bidirectional memory access: reading and writing. The legal system has no framework for this. Your spoken testimony can be compelled in court, but your thoughts are currently protected.

Once memories are stored in a hybrid biological-digital format, are they data (subject to warrants, subpoenas, and corporate terms of service) or are they the inviolable self? Law enforcement will argue memory-reading is just an advanced polygraph. Civil libertarians will call it the end of the self as a private entity. The question sits at the intersection of nanotech, biotech, computing, and society.