The Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) is a nonprofit law, policy, and public education institute working to advance and protect freedom of thought at a time when drugs and other cognitive technologies present both opportunities and challenges for individual and collective freedom.
The CCLE maintains that the fundamental right to liberty, privacy, and self-determination over one’s own intellect is essential to our most cherished freedoms. We work in the courts, with policy makers, industry, other organizations and people like you to advance legal, social, and ethical polices that protect cognitive freedom, dignity, and potential.
Cognitive liberty, the right of a person to liberty, autonomy and privacy over his or her own intellect is situated at the core of what it means to be a free person. This principle is what gives life to some of our most well-established and cherished human and constitutional rights. Today, as new drugs, technologies and techniques are being developed for augmenting, enhancing, or conversely, surveilling and controlling human thought, the CCLE produces original research and analysis, and engages in legal advocacy aimed at protecting cognitive liberty and the full potential of the human intellect.
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