Data ownership in training artificial intelligence in healthcare

Abstract

"In the framework of this article, we research whether, according to the national regulation of Latvia, the data used in the training of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine can be considered an object of property rights. An analytical and descriptive method will be used for the research. The analytical method will help analyse the data as a property term and determine its principles. Meanwhile, the descriptive method will describe the AI technology definition and processes. The work will clarify whether Latvia should provide a more transparent and fairer approach to patient data and their right to fully manage it, based on the examples of Finland and Belgium. We cannot consider all personal data objects of property rights in civil law because it is difficult to determine the beginning and end of personal data. However, personal data obtained from an organisation and stored in the personal cloud are considered an object of property rights. At the same time, by analogy, it can be concluded that ownership rights to data may also exist in other circumstances, depending on the type of data and its storage location. Keywords: personal data, property rights, civil law, medicine law."