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TECH MeD: Transdisciplinary Education for Critical Hacks of Medical Devices

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University of Florida

TECH MeD: Transdisciplinary Education for Critical Hacks of Medical Devices

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This course seeks to create an informed public, aware of the technical, medical, legal, and ethical issues associated with implantable medical devices. The course features conversations with experts from a variety of relevant fields to discuss the present and future technological, ethical, legal, and social challenges associated with implantable medical devices. DISCLAIMER: This course is intended for educational purposes only. None of the information provided in this course constitutes medical or legal advice. If you have medical or legal questions, contact your physician or attorney.

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Introduction and Medical Issues

This module introduces you to the technical, medical, legal, and ethical issues associated with the hacking of medical devices.

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Meet the Instructors

Lauren Solberg
Assistant Professor
University of Florida, Department of Community Health & Family Medicine
Michael Bachmann
Associate Professor
Texas Christian University, Department of Criminal Justice
Adam Shniderman
Assistant Professor
Texas Christian University, Department of Criminal Justice (Former)
Molly Weinburgh
William L. & Betty F. Adams Chair of Education
Texas Christian University, Andrews Institute of Mathematics & Science Education
Brittany Bachmann

Texas Christian University

I mean, one of the things that worries me about medically connected devices is that,

it's just that we are, the number,

the amount of data is going to be overwhelming.

And our justice system is not fully equipped to handle

this volume of evidence, right.

We're not equipped to lock it down.

We're not equipped to make sure that people's information is only being

shared with authorized users, nor are we equipped to deal

with the jurisdictional questions that are going to arise with this much evidence.

Just information about information potentially connected to a crime

that's being shared by people's devices.

An example, just as an aside, I mean, the British government last year.

So the British government, and

this is largely because these devices are sharing information about our activities.

But it's also because they're connected to a network that is at least,

seems global, right?

A globally distributed network.

So let's say you have a medical device created by Google, right.

Google's making medical devices.

Google has servers all of the world.

You take a flight from country A to country B,

and your data, even if you leave, you never leave your country,

your data may enter another jurisdiction and sit on their servers, right.

Now suppose a crime happens and the state wants access to some evidence

connected to your device, or your device has been hacked and you go to the cops and

you say, look, my device has been hacked, I want someone to investigate this.

And they pull up the evidence, and it looks like, actually,

there are logs that cross a bunch of state lines.

The system for handling those cross-jurisdictional requests for

evidence just cannot meet the demand that we're going to see.

So the demand is just enormous.

So just as an example, the United Kingdom represents approximately 2% of the world's

Internet traffic.

And last year, the British government requested over

50,000 pieces of evidence from six American technology companies.

So this is the big six, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Microsoft,

and I'm forgetting the sixth, but you understand the volume, right?

I mean, 50,000 requests for evidence stored in another jurisdiction,

right, from American companies, from a tiny island nation.

We're close with the UK.

They're big in our minds, but it's a tiny, tiny country.

Now imagine, India has not made as many requests, and

China has not made as many requests, but now imagine a country the size of India or

Brazil making those kinds of requests, right.

These American technology companies,

really, every global technology company is going to be inundated with requests for

evidence in connection with crimes, partly because evidence is becoming digital, but

also because this evidence is very often international.

So the jurisdictional questions are going to be paramount.

And then, remember that I told you that it takes on average in the United States,

which has got a pretty well-functioning system,

ten months to process a cross-jurisdictional request for data.

So the justice system is just simply not able to deal with the demand.

And if you look on the United States' government side,

the number of requests from foreign governments for

access to evidence, right, the DOJ's numbers are the numbers I have.

15 years ago, there were 80 requests for computer records, right.

Last year, there were over 2,000.

If you look at the growth curve of foreign countries asking the American government

for assistance in criminal matters, asking for

digital evidence, it's logarithmic, it's exponential.

And the number of requests that we make to other countries is not huge at the moment,

because so many technology companies happen to be based here.

But that's going to change, right?

It's only a matter of time before people choose a medical device

that was created in Israel, and a lot of the data is stored in Israel.

And suddenly it's going to matter, right, whether the United States can quickly

get access to that data, even though it's stored in another jurisdiction.

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