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The Council of Europe, Europe's most important human rights organization, is developing a legally binding instrument for the development, design, and application of AI systems. This "Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law" (AI Convention) aims to protect human rights against the harms of AI. The AI Convention may become the first legally-binding international treaty on AI. In this article, we highlight the implications of the proposed AI Convention for the health and human rights protection of patients. We praise the following characteristics [1]. Global regulation for technology that easily crosses jurisdictions [2]. The human rights-based approach with human rights assessment [3]. The actor-neutral, full-lifecycle approach [4]. The creation of enforceable rights through the European Human Rights Court. We signal the following challenges [1]. The sector-neutral approach [2]. The lack of reflection on new human rights [3]. Definitional issues, and [4] The process of global negotiations. We conclude that it is important for the Council of Europe not to compromise on the wide scope of application and the rights-based character of the proposed AI Convention., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest Hannah van Kolfschooten has no conflict of interest to declare. Her research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Carmel Shachar has no conflict of interest to declare. Her work was supported by Novo Nordisk Foundation (grant for a Collaborative Research Programme, grant agreement number NNF17SA0027784) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (grant agreement number 9974)., (Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)

There has been increasing interest in the use of home monitoring technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic to decrease interpersonal contacts and the resultant risks of exposure for people to the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. This Perspective explores how the accelerated development of these technologies also raises major concerns pertaining to safety and privacy. We make recommendations for needed interventions to ensure safety and review best practices and US regulatory requirements for privacy and security. We discuss, among other topics, Emergency Use Authorizations for medical devices and privacy laws of the USA and Europe.