Raises questions about consent, privacy and children's futures in body-network and digital-twin technolog…

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Raises questions about consent, privacy and children's futures in body-network and digital-twin technologies, citing technical and government materials for consideration.

  • Surveillance & privacy concerns: bidirectional digital twin data for our EHR? When did we unknowingly consent to all of this? FCC Ingestibles, Wearables and Embeddables htt
  • Children & vulnerable groups: How do we explain any of this to our children and that their future careers will all be dependent on this bioe
  • Other concerns: ctrum.ieee.org/turning-the-body-into-a-wire Internet of Bodies Purdue University https://engineering.purdue.edu/C-IoB 2020 T

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How do we explain any of this to our children and that their future careers will all be dependent on this bioengineered, bioeconomy?

I pray one day spoken truth will clarify the meaning of any of this.

NASEM

1993

Assessment of the Possible Health Effects of

Ground Wave Emergency Network

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK208990/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK208990.pdf

2003

S.189 - 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act

Public Law 108-153

https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/189/cosponsors

Self assembling Nanotechnology

Human Enhancements

2017

A Review on Human Body Communication: Signal Propagation Model, Communication Performance, and Experimental Issues

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2017/5842310

2019

Your Body: The Network You Didn’t Know You Had

https://www.voanews.com/a/4858053.html

2020

Turning the Body into a Wire

https://spectrum.ieee.org/turning-the-body-into-a-wire

Internet of Bodies

Purdue University

https://engineering.purdue.edu/C-IoB

2020

The body is the network: To safeguard sensitive data, turn flesh and tissue into a secure wireless channel

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9271808?denied=

WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS: A NEW PARADIGM OF PERSONAL

SMART HEALTH.

https://smartcities.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/SCWhitePaper-WirelessBodyAreaNetworks.pdf

2020

On the Safety of Human Body Communication

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10249173

2024

Federal Register

“The bidirectional interaction between the virtual and the physical is central to the digital twin.”

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/06/18/2024-13379/networking-and-information-technology-research-and-development-request-for-information-on-digital

Warfighter Digital Twin

“If the digital twin is considered as a body, digital threads (data stream), is the “blood” of the body.” (p. 10)

https://www.modsimworld.org/papers/2022/MODSIM_2022_paper_10.pdf

Will we need an app on our smart phones to receive our own bidirectional digital twin data for our EHR? When did we unknowingly consent to all of this?

FCC

Ingestibles, Wearables and Embeddables

https://www.fcc.gov/general/ingestibles-wearables-and-embeddables

Body Area Network

Privacy: People might consider the WBAN technology as a potential threat to freedom if the applications go beyond "secure" medical usage. Social acceptance would be key to this technology finding a wider application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_area_network

And so many more questions…

2018

NASEM

Securing the Vote

Protecting American Democracy

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy

5G-6G-7G

COVID (load balancing)

Synesthesia

Autism

FHIR

SLI Compliance

21st Century Cures Act

Brain Initiative

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