Microchipping humans was once the stuff of science fiction but today we seem to be more than just dabbling in our dreams. For some fusing technology with the flesh will herald in an unforeseen utopia, and yet for others embedded sensors ‘under the skin’ is a clear marker of a dystopic future. What are the social implications of opting in or opting out to such a cyborgian vision? What are the unintended consequences of becoming an electrophorus? And what are the opportunity costs of not doing so? This presentation will describe where humans fit into The Internet of Things equation, and how we might be propelling ourselves toward an Internet of Us before too long. Welcome to uberveillance, where you too, might well be considered a node on a 5G network. It’s time to talk about the sociotechnical implications of humancentric embedded non-medical telecommunications devices that can be injected or even swallowed. More here also: http://www.katinamichael.com/seminars/2017/11/2/the-internet-of-us-radcomm2017

1. The Internet of Us
Katina Michael
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
@katinamichael | katinamichael.com

2. Source: http://iplab.origen.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Kevin-Ashton-e1432050157348.jpg

3. Source: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*kzz1i3cUZ151BfRe6ATLPw.jpeg

4. It’s a Smart World

5. •Static
•Buildings and
infrastructure are
relatively stable
•Dynamic
•People and things
generally move

6. Video 1 (Atrius)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF1yDIAPNJQ

15. http://smarthome.reviewed.com/features/were-losing-the-war-for-the-smart-home

16. https://www.renesas.com/en-in/about/web-magazine/edge/solution/08-body-area-networks.html

17. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWBjUsmO-Lw&feature=

18. “Etching Closer to Uberveillance”, Michael, Michael & Perakslis, 2016

19. • Coined by Dr M.G. Michael in 2006
• “Objects” are embedded inside “subjects”
• From iMac to iPod, from iPhone to iPad  iPlant
• Who (ID), where (location), what condition (physiological)?
• Related to situational awareness and predictive profiling
• All-seeing and all-knowing but context will always be missing

20. The Blackbox Beneath the Skin
Condition
Location
Identity

21. Hacking the Human Heart
• Physiological  Neurological
• Axis of Access
• Misinformation
• Misinterpretation
of data
• Information
manipulation
Courtesy of Bird Machine

22. Source: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5510027/

23. Video 2 (Bionic Implants - Kaspersky Labs)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ziK_RnQUxw

24. Source: https://www.trademarkia.com/internet-of-us-86436348.html

25. Source: https://www.recode.net/2014/10/28/11632408/hong-kong-democracy-protesters-give-firechat-a-huge-test-run

26. Source: https://www.biohax.tech/

28. Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/medtronic-wants-to-implant-sensors-in-everyone

29. Video 3 – (BrickHouse Security)

30. Rich Lee’s Insertables
Source: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/06/this-guy-has-an-invisible-headphone-implanted-in-his-ear/

33. Source: https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/implantedui

34. Video 4 (Cochlear Nucleus 7 Linked to iPhone)

38. Medtronic Micra
Cochlear Nucleus
32M
VeriChip
SJ Rail
DBS

40. Source:
https://www.computer.org/csdl/mag
s/co/2013/02/mco2013020036.html

41. Tethering Two Wearable (on body) Devices
https://www.scansku.com/
http://www.richmond.com/news/article_a4b
118d5-65da-5399-bca8-c0661b6448b1.html

44. Source: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/netmit/IMDShield/

45. Rise of Electrophorus (K. Michael, 2002)
Michael, K., “The automatic identification trajectory: from the ENIAC to chip implants”, in Internet Commerce: digital models
for business, E. Lawrence et al., John Wiley and Sons, Queensland, pp. 131-134, 136 (2002).

46. Source: Chew and Michael, 2005

47. Electromagnetic Interference
Source: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/why-people-with-brain-implants-are-afraid-to-go-through-automatic-doors/

48. Source: http://www.hcanews.com/news/pacemaker-incident-provides-important-lessons-for-future-device-security-updates

49. Infected Implant - Malware
Courtesy of Mark Gasson & IEEE ISTAS10

50. https://www.sjmglobal.com/en-int/patients/movement-disorders/living-with-dbs-therapy/electromagnetic-
interference?alert=DeepLinkSoftAlert&clset=92f57278-460e-4300-b7fe-89e52a04194f%3acadddb93-fcc4-47f2-8ceb-fd88f01ca17f

51. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18856251

52. Video 5 (Steve Jobs)

54. https://vimeo.com/48158063

55. https://vimeo.com/48158063

56. https://vimeo.com/48158063

57. IEEE 802.15.6 Standard
• The IEEE 802.15.6 standard is the latest international standard for Wireless Body Area
Network (WBAN).
• WBAN supports a variety of real-time health monitoring and consumer electronics applications.
• The latest international standard for WBAN is the IEEE 802.15.6 standard which aims to provide
an international standard for low power, short range, and extremely reliable wireless
communication within the surrounding area of the human body, supporting a vast range of data
rates for different applications.
• Short-range, wireless communications in the vicinity of, or inside, a human body (but not limited
to humans) are specified in this standard. It uses existing industrial scientific medical (ISM) bands
as well as frequency bands approved by national medical and/or regulatory authorities. Support
for quality of service (QoS), extremely low power, and data rates up to 10 Mbps is required while
simultaneously complying with strict non-interference guidelines where needed.
• This standard considers effects on portable antennas due to the presence of a person (varying
with male, female, skinny, heavy, etc.), radiation pattern shaping to minimize the specific
absorption rate (SAR) into the body, and changes in characteristics as a result of the user motions.

58. Conclusion
• Need to be a part of the ongoing standards discussions around BAN.
• How connected do we really want to be?
• Privacy, security, ethics, human rights, cyborg rights and more
• We may well see the rise of a dependent BAN
• It follows “death by internet” is not fictional any longer
• Heart and brain pacemakers have been “turned off” [electromagnetic interference]
• Terms and agreement become more important than ever before (laws and regulation)
• Social eInclusion and equity
• Who has implants and how do we know if they do or do not?
• Body hacking, citizen scientists are here to stay. How far too far?
• My bet is that P2P implants will be the norm. Bitcoin. Blockchain.