Internet of Bodies: Digital Content Directive, And Beyond

“Internet of Bodies” is the new frontier of digital technologies challenging our lives as individuals and as a society. European Union has not yet set up a coherent and complete regulatory framework dealing with the “Internet of Everything”. This paper aims at describing the possible implications of the new technologies, in search for responsible legal reactions. After defining IoB and some uncomfortable problems raised by it, the paper faces the topic of what can law and policy do in order to provide a set of rules adequate for supporting but governing sustainable data-driven technologies. The current legal framework is essentially designed by the Digital Content Directive, the Product Liability Directive and the product safety legislation framed into a multilevel layout, as set up by the New Legislative Framework and by the European Standardisation System. The a. argues that it is within this regulatory framework that new technologies should be controlled, although a substantial institutional revision in the light of plurality and transparency is still desirable.