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19 The framework principles go on to provide further and better particulars about anonymization (including that “sensitive” data will be kept separate from identifying information and only linked using a code that has no external meaning), re-identification and security. Quite clearly, the intention is to instate a strong regime of privacy protection with regard to the information collected for and held by the Biobank. 20 However, in the case of biobank governance, the debate is more traditional, with utilitarians and human rights theorists lined up against one another, the former emphasizing the public health goods to be derived from biobank research and the latter insisting that public goods, however good, must be pursued in a way that fully respects individual rights.

Ee. Population Genetic Databases 35 Informed consent Since the Nuremberg Code established the ground rules for ethical research in 1947, researchers have been required to get informed consent from people participating in studies. This requirement is based on the principle that competent individuals are entitled to decide freely whether to participate or not in any research study. This means basically that participants should understand the nature, risks, benefits and alternatives of the research, and should be able to knowledgeably and voluntarily decide whether or not to participate in the proposed research.

22 Property (in biological samples) Modern technologies have given rise to a clutch of issues concerning property. P. Fletcher, Basic Concepts of Legal Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 109. 22 For full analysis, see D. Beyleveld, R. Brownsword, Consent in the Law (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006). 23 For discussion, see L. Lessig, The Future of Ideas (New York: Random House, 2001). Biobank Governance 17 by patent. Here, the key issue is whether, relative to a human rights perspective, property should be recognized in biological samples.

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