The general purpose of the present paper is to investigate the consequences on the shift of paradigm from human-machine to the human-information to the legal protection of the person, especially on the case of biopatents. To do so, bibliographic and documentary research method was used. As a main result, the article concludes that it is necessary to set the protection of human beings’ as a full value, not only as a subject of legal relations. That’s because the genetic information taken from a human being and placed in a database — separated from the body and completely unidentified — provides information about the human being and, therefore, is part of the human being. Keywords: information, law and technology, civil rights, industrial property, patents.