Simon Fraser University – Bioelectronics course: Week 2

Last night (Sept.15, 2014), I taught the second week of the bioelectronics course at Simon Fraser University (SFU; Vancouver, Canada)  I mentioned last week and as promised I am making the slide decks available. Here’s a brief description of week 2, followed by a confession, and the slide deck, and notes. From the SFU course description,

Week 2: Who Owns Medical Implant Data and/or Wearable Technology Data?

Who has the right to own, control and use the information collected by sensors in our bodies? Issues and questions of data ownership and its uses have also arisen over the data generated by wearable technology such as fitness monitors and Google Glasses.

The confession is that I focused on medical implant data, tissues and blood, and genes. By the way, in the US you don’t own your tissues and blood after they’re cut from  or leave your body and Ontario, in June 2014, handed down a similar ruling although it’s not supposed to be considered precedent-setting and covers a narrowly defined procedural matter. In any event, you won’t be finding anything about wearable technology in this week’s slide deck.

Week 2_Data_ownership

You will find there’s some material about intellectual property, memory (will our data be there tomorrow?), as well as, information about who owns the data.

Finally, here are my ‘notes’ for week 2 which consist largely of brief heads designed to remind me of the content to be found by clicking the link directly after the head.

Week 2 Data

Happy reading and clicking!

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