"As smart devices in health care evolve, the line between human and machine is blurring — and creating new concerns about consumer safety and privacy rights... These high-tech health care solutions are part of an emerging sector of medical technologies that monitor personal health data by essentially connecting your body to the Internet. These devices are members of the “Internet of Bodies,” a nod to the Internet of Things... If retroactive privacy laws for the Internet have taught us anything, we should consider establishing rules to govern the legal, privacy and ethical issues that are already arising from smart medical and biometric devices. The Internet of Bodies is problematic by design, since connected devices are implanted, ingested or otherwise affixed to the human body, which raises serious concerns regarding cybersecurity, privacy and sensitive data protection. Having a device directly attached to the body heightens the potential havoc that hacking or intentional malfunction could wreak..." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/15/health-data/?utm_term=.6f4778d288a8
