The cybernetic revolution is happening, and it's imperative that civil liberties and privacy issues are addressed by system designers, innovators, regulators, and legislators, says James Scott, a Senior Fellow at cybersecurity think tank ICIT (Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology).
With a recently released paper on the topic of implantable devices, he provided a comprehensive overview of the current situation regarding the use of medical and non-medical implants, and the security and privacy issues that already arose from their use, and are likely to arise in the future.
He expects sophisticated cybernetic implant systems to be more widely deployed in the next decade, and would like to see security-by-design be prioritized while implant devices are still in the inceptive phase. If we fail to do that, he says, there may not be any way to mitigate the onslaught of privacy and security harms poised to disrupt humanity's potential evolution.
What we need is "responsible regulatory legislation that does not pander to the whims of metadata curators and data brokers and that mandates security-by-design."
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Posted by Dan Corcoran on November 8, 2017 07:01 AM
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