# Proper Biometrics Identification

**Any application of Biometrics is mired with much deliberate tyranny and abuse, therefore exacting and technically precise Charters of Rights are required specific to the technologies in scanning and storage to safeguard against the corporate and state sponsored tyranny.**

# Henrietta Lacks

> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As the overwhelming evidence indicates, the number of arrests and clear law enforcement investigations, the organ trafficking of the detainees and POWs is currently a flourishing business endeavor in the West with stellar performance of Israeli government and their biomedical associations and numerous enterprises. Given this knowledge, the proper Biometric Identifications requires a clear Charter of Rights. To emphasize the critical nature of this subject matter please see the blatant violation of Henrietta Lacks' rights. </span>

**Henrietta Lacks** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">\[1\] (</span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">née</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names "Birth name")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span>**Loretta Pleasant**<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951)</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[2\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-vpbio-3)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> was an </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">African-American</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans "African Americans")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> woman</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[5\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-6)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> whose </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cancer cells</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_cell "Cancer cell")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> are the source of the </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HeLa</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa "HeLa")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> cell line, the first </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">immortalized human cell line</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalized_cell_line "Immortalized cell line")[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[B\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-8)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and one of the most important cell lines in </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">medical research</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research "Medical research")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data and research to the present day.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[7\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-9)[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[8\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-10)<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript"> </span></sup>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">biopsied</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsy "Biopsy")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> during her treatment for </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cervical cancer</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervical_cancer "Cervical cancer")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> at the </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Johns Hopkins Hospital</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_Hospital "Johns Hopkins Hospital")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baltimore</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore "Baltimore")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, Maryland, in 1951. These cells were then </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cultured</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbiological_culture "Microbiological culture")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">George Otto Gey</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Otto_Gey "George Otto Gey")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[9\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-11)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184);">As was then the practice, no </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184);">consent</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent "Consent")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184);"> was required to culture the cells obtained from Lacks's treatment. Neither she nor her family were compensated for the extraction or use of the HeLa cells.</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(251, 238, 184);">Even though some information about the origins of HeLa's immortalized cell lines was known to researchers after 1970, the Lacks family was not made aware of the line's existence until 1975.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> With knowledge of the cell line's </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">genetic</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics "Genetics")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> provenance becoming public, its use for medical research and for commercial purposes continues to raise concerns about </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">privacy</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy "Privacy")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">patients' rights</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients'_rights "Patients' rights")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span>

##### Illness

##### Diagnosis and treatment

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On January 29, 1951, Lacks went to Johns Hopkins because she felt a "knot" in her womb.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[21\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkloot201013-23)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> She had previously told her cousins about the "knot" and they assumed correctly that she was pregnant. But after giving birth to Joseph, Lacks had a severe </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hemorrhage</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemorrhage "Hemorrhage")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Her primary care doctor, William C. Wade,</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[22\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-24)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> referred her back to Johns Hopkins.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[23\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-25)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> There, her doctor, </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Howard W. Jones</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_W._Jones "Howard W. Jones")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, took a </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">biopsy</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsy "Biopsy")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> of a mass found on Lacks's </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cervix</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix "Cervix")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for laboratory testing. Soon after, Lacks was told that she had a malignant </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">epidermoid carcinoma</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamous-cell_carcinoma "Squamous-cell carcinoma")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> of the cervix.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[C\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-27)[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[25\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkloot201027-28)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> In 1970, physicians discovered that she had been misdiagnosed and actually had an </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">adenocarcinoma</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenocarcinoma "Adenocarcinoma")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[D\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-30)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> This was a common mistake at the time, and the treatment would not have differed.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[27\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkloot2010172-31)

##### Death and burial

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On August 8, 1951, Lacks, who was 31 years old, went to Johns Hopkins for a routine treatment session and asked to be admitted due to continued severe abdominal pain. She received blood transfusions and remained at the hospital until her death on October 4, 1951.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[29\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkloot201086-33)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> A partial </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">autopsy</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy "Autopsy")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> showed that the cancer had </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">metastasized</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastasized "Metastasized")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> throughout her entire body.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[2\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-vpbio-3)[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[30\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-Baltimore_City_News-34)

[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lacks Town Road</span>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lacks%20Town%20Road "commons:Category:Lacks Town Road")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in Clover, Virginia, near where Lacks grew up and is buried</span>

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lacks was buried in an unmarked grave in the family cemetery, in a section of Clover, Virginia, called Lackstown.</span>

##### Medical and scientific research

Main article: [HeLa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa "HeLa")

[![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Cell_culture_%28HeLa_cells%29_%28261_18%29_Cell_culture_%28HeLa_cells%29_-_metaphase%2C_telophase.jpg/250px-Cell_culture_%28HeLa_cells%29_%28261_18%29_Cell_culture_%28HeLa_cells%29_-_metaphase%2C_telophase.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cell_culture_(HeLa_cells)_(261_18)_Cell_culture_(HeLa_cells)_-_metaphase,_telophase.jpg)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dividing HeLa cells in culture. The cells can be seen </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">metaphase</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphase "Metaphase")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">telophase</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telophase "Telophase")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, different stages of cell division.</span>

[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">George Otto Gey</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Otto_Gey "George Otto Gey")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, the first researcher to study Lacks's cancerous cells, observed that these cells were unusual in that they reproduced at a very high rate and could be kept alive long enough in culture to allow more in-depth examination.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[35\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-39)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Until then, cells cultured for laboratory studies survived for only a few days at most, which was not long enough to perform a variety of different tests on the same sample. Lacks's cells were the first to be observed that could be divided multiple times without dying, which is why they became known as "immortal". After Lacks's death, Gey had Mary Kubicek, his lab assistant, take further HeLa samples while Henrietta's body was at Johns Hopkins' autopsy facility.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[36\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-40)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The roller-tube technique</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[E\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-42)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> was the method used to culture the cells obtained from the samples that Kubicek collected.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[38\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-43)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Gey was able to start a cell line from Lacks's sample by isolating one specific cell and repeatedly dividing it, meaning that the same cell could then be used for conducting many experiments.</span>

> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ability to rapidly reproduce HeLa cells in a laboratory setting has led to many important breakthroughs in </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">biomedical research</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical_research "Biomedical research")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. HeLa cells were in high demand and put into mass production. They were mailed to scientists around the globe for "research into </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cancer</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer "Cancer")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AIDS</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS "AIDS")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">gene mapping</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_mapping "Gene mapping")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and countless other scientific pursuits".</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[30\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-Baltimore_City_News-34)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> HeLa cells were the first human cells successfully cloned, in 1955,</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[41\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-46)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and have since been used to test human sensitivity to tape, </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">glue</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhesive "Adhesive")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">cosmetics</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetics "Cosmetics")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and many other products.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[2\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-vpbio-3)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> There are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[2\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-vpbio-3)

### Consent issues and privacy concerns

> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Neither Henrietta Lacks nor her family had given her physicians permission to harvest her cells. At that time, permission was neither required nor customarily sought.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[44\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-49)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> The cells were used in medical research and for commercial purposes.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[30\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-Baltimore_City_News-34)[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[2\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-vpbio-3)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> In the 1980s, family medical records were published without family consent. A similar issue was brought up in the </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Supreme Court of California</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_California "Supreme Court of California")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> case of </span>[*Moore v. Regents of the University of California*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Regents_of_the_University_of_California "Moore v. Regents of the University of California")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> in 1990. The court ruled that a person's discarded tissue and cells are not their property and can be commercialized.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[45\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-FOOTNOTESkloot2010203%E2%80%93206-50)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In October 2021, Lacks's estate filed a lawsuit against </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thermo Fisher Scientific</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo_Fisher_Scientific "Thermo Fisher Scientific")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for profiting from the HeLa cell line without Lacks's consent,</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[47\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-53)[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[48\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-54)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> asking for "the full amount of \[Thermo Fisher's\] net profits".</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[49\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-55)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> On July 31, 2023, Thermo Fisher Scientific settled with the Lacks family on undisclosed terms.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[50\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-apnews_20230801_thermosettlement-56)

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In February 2026, the Lacks family gained an out-of-court settlement with a second biotech company, Switzerland-based </span>[<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Novartis</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis "Novartis")<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Details of the settlement have not been made public. Lawsuits against several other drug companies are still ongoing.</span>[<sup style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="editor-theme-superscript">\[51\]</span></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks#cite_note-57)

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">\[1\] </span>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta\_Lacks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks)<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span>

# Charter of Peoples' Rights to Biometric Identification

1. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus, has the right to Biometric identification everywhere as a person of a People before the law;</span>
2. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus, has the right to proper Biometric identification including but not limited to manufactured cards, digital series of unsigned bytes, digitally signed series of unsigned bytes;</span>
3. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every person from a People, has the right to partial copyrights and licenses to their proper Biometric identification;</span>
4. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus, has the right to proper digitally immortalized Biometric identification;</span>
5. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No entity in the world can claim exclusive rights to the proper Biometric identification of a Person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus;</span>
6. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No entity in the world can tamper with or alter the proper Biometric identification of a Person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus;</span>
7. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">No entity in the world can cancel or terminate or delete the proper Biometric identification of a Person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus;</span>
8. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus, has the right to proper Biometric identification recognized by all authorities around the globe;</span>
9. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Every person from a People, dead, alive or unborn fetus, has the right to reject and refuse tracking the proper Biometric identification;</span>

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