{"id":73912,"date":"2017-11-21T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T02:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/why-cyborg-creators-must-self-govern-security-privacy-efforts"},"modified":"2017-11-21T18:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T02:42:31","slug":"why-cyborg-creators-must-self-govern-security-privacy-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/why-cyborg-creators-must-self-govern-security-privacy-efforts","title":{"rendered":"Why cyborg creators must self-govern security, privacy efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/skHPV6rO_P8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most people probably aren\u2019t aware of this, but the 2016 U.S. Presidential election included a candidate who had a radio-frequency identification chip implanted in his hand. No, it wasn\u2019t Donald J. Trump. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/opinion\/openforum\/article\/Chip-enhanced-political-candidates-coming-soon-8694149.php\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Zoltan Istvan<\/a>, a nominee representing the Silicon Valley-based Transhumanist Party and his body-worn chip unlocked his front door, provided computer password access and sent an auto-text that said: \u201cWin in 2016!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/salvation-in-transhumanism-humanity-merges-with-machines-and-lives-for-ever\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">transhumanist movement<\/a> \u2013 employing technology and radical science to modify humans \u2013 offers a glimpse into the marriage of machines and people, the focus of a <a href=\"http:\/\/icitech.org\/hacking-cyborgs-by-2025-non-augmented-humans-will-be-obsolete-but-theres-bad-news\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">recent paper<\/a> released by the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT). With cybernetic implants already available to consumers, the prospect for techno-human transmutation \u2013 cyborgs \u2013 is not as far away as many may think.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are moving towards automation, we are moving towards machine learning,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/parham-eftekhari-5575225\/\">Parham Eftekhari<\/a> (pictured), co-founder and senior fellow at ICIT. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing it impact a lot of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eftekhari stopped by the set of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE\u2019s mobile livestreaming studio, and spoke with co-hosts John Furrier (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/furrier\">@furrier<\/a>) and Dave Vellante (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dvellante\">@dvellante<\/a>) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecube.net\/cyberconnect-2017\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CyberConnect 2017<\/a> in New York City. They discussed ICIT\u2019s recent cybersecurity research and the potential for increased government regulation. <em>( Disclosure below.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/dont-look-now-but-the-cyborgs-are-coming-cyberconnect\/\">https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/dont-look-now-but-t...erconnect\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people probably aren\u2019t aware of this, but the 2016 U.S. Presidential election included a candidate who had a radio-frequency identification chip implanted in his hand. No, it wasn\u2019t Donald J. Trump. It was Zoltan Istvan, a nominee representing the Silicon Valley-based Transhumanist Party and his body-worn chip unlocked his front door, provided computer password [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1499,5,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-cyborgs","category-geopolitics","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}