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Cyberbiosecurity: An Emerging Field that has Ethical Implications for Clinical Neuroscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2021

Dov Greenbaum
Dov Greenbaum*
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale UniversityNew Haven, Connecticut, USA Harry Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, IDC, Israel
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*Corresponding author: Email: dov.greenbaum@yale.edu
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Abstract

Cyberbiosecurity is an emerging field that relates to the intersection of cybersecurity and the clinical and research practice in the biosciences. Beyond the concerns that usually arise in the areas of genomics, this paper highlights ethical concerns raised by cyberbiosecurity in clinical neuroscience. These concerns relate not only to the privacy of the data collected by imaging devices, but also the concern that patients using various stimulatory devices can be harmed by a hacker who either obfuscates the outputs or who interferes with the stimulatory process. The paper offers some suggestions as to how to rectify these increasingly dire concerns.

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cyberbiosecurityclinical neuroscienceimaging devicesprivacy of data collection
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , October 2021 , pp. 662 - 668
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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