Human ICT Implants: Technical, Legal and Ethical Considerations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Human ICT Implants: From Invasive to Pervasive

   • Mark N. Gasson, Eleni Kosta, Diana M. Bowman

   Pages 1-8

3. Human ICT Implants: From Restoration to Enhancement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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4. Human ICT implants: From restoration to enhancement

   1. Human ICT Implants: From Restorative Application to Human Enhancement

      • Mark N. Gasson

      Pages 11-28

   2. Potential Application Areas for RFID Implants

      • Pawel Rotter, Barbara Daskala, Ramon Compañó, Bernhard Anrig, Claude Fuhrer

      Pages 29-39

   3. Restoring Function: Application Exemplars of Medical ICT Implants

      • Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Pawel Rotter, Mark N. Gasson

      Pages 41-51

5. Technical Challenges of Human ICT Implants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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6. Technical challenges of human ICT implants

   1. Passive Human ICT Implants: Risks and Possible Solutions

      • Pawel Rotter, Barbara Daskala, Ramon Compañó

      Pages 55-62

   2. Implantable Medical Devices: Privacy and Security Concerns

      • Pawel Rotter, Mark N. Gasson

      Pages 63-66

7. A Social, Ethical and Legal Analysis of Human ICT Implants

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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8. A social, ethical and legal analysis of human ICT implants

   1. Carrying Implants and Carrying Risks; Human ICT Implants and Liability

      • Arnold Roosendaal

      Pages 69-79

   2. Implants and Human Rights, in Particular Bodily Integrity

      • Arnold Roosendaal

      Pages 81-96

   3. Implanting Implications: Data Protection Challenges Arising from the Use of Human ICT Implants

      • Eleni Kosta, Diana M. Bowman

      Pages 97-112

   4. Cheating with Implants: Implications of the Hidden Information Advantage of Bionic Ears and Eyes

      • Bert-Jaap Koops, Ronald Leenes

      Pages 113-134

   5. Ethical Implications of ICT Implants

      • Mireille Hildebrandt, Bernhard Anrig

      Pages 135-158

   6. Pieces of Me: On Identity and Information and Communications Technology Implants

      • Bibi van den Berg

      Pages 159-173

   7. The Societal Reality of That Which Was Once Science Fiction

      • Diana M. Bowman, Mark N. Gasson, Eleni Kosta

      Pages 175-179

9. Back Matter

   Pages 181-184

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Human information and communication technology (ICT) implants have developed for many years in a medical context. Such applications have become increasingly advanced, in some cases modifying fundamental brain function. Today, comparatively low-tech implants are being increasingly employed in non-therapeutic contexts, with applications ranging from the use of ICT implants for VIP entry into nightclubs, automated payments for goods, access to secure facilities and for those with a high risk of being kidnapped. Commercialisation and growing potential of human ICT implants have generated debate over the ethical, legal and social aspects of the technology, its products and application. Despite stakeholders calling for greater policy and legal certainty within this area, gaps have already begun to emerge between the commercial reality of human ICT implants and the current legal frameworks designed to regulate these products. This book focuses on the latest technological developments and onthe legal, social and ethical implications of the use and further application of these technologies.

• Ethics
• Implants
• Information and communication technology (ICT)
• Law
• Privacy

• , School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, United Kingdom

  Mark N. Gasson

• , ICRI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Eleni Kosta

• , Risk Science Centre, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

  Diana M. Bowman

Mark N. Gasson is a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, UK. Eleni Kosta is a Senior Legal Researcher in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT (ICRI), Faculty of Law, KU Leuven, Belgium. Diana M. Bowman is an Assistant Professor in the Risk Science Centre and the Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA and a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, KU Leuven, Belgium.

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