The call for papers for the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry, to be held June 27-29, 2009 in Corfu, Greece, has been posted: CEPE2009 welcomes high quality paper and panel proposals in all areas of computer/IT ethics. …
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Similar to the Yale Information Society Project's "9.5 Theses" and CFP's "Letter to the Next President," the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has created an issue document targeted to the next President and Congress: "The Internet in Transition: A…
There have been some exciting developments as we near the Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on "Technology Policy ‘08": We are pleased to announce that Clay Shirky will deliver the closing plenary keynote on Friday lunch (5/23). (See my post…
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The program for next month’s Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“ has been posted and features an excellent array of tutorials, plenaries and panels: Plenary Sessions Presidential Technology Policy: Priorities for the Next Executive The 21st Century…
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In preparation for next month's Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference on “Technology Policy ‘08“, the Yale Information Society Project has released "9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration": 1. Privacy. Protect human dignity, autonomy, and privacy by providing…
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Consumer attention to privacy is seemingly on the rise. We witnessed renewed concern about the tracking of user behavior online, medical privacy as Web-based storage solutions are being proposed, the tracking and selling of television viewing patterns, the merging of…
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The call for papers for the 2008 Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference has been released. This year's theme is "Technology Policy '08". Details below: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY '08 http://cfp2008.org/ 18th Annual CFP conference May 20-23, 2008 Omni…
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Last fall I had the pleasure of participating in a “Forum on Quaero: A public think tank on the politics of the search engine” hosted by the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands. My talk at that event outlined…
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Speaking of my colleague Noëmi Manders-Huits, she is organizing an amazing looking conference on Ethics, Technology and Identity in Delft this June: Information technology plays an increasingly important role in society and in human lives. Identity Management Technologies (e.g. biometrics,…
A few years ago I was privileged to attend the Graduate Student Workshop on Values in Computer and Information System Design, hosted by Geoffrey Bowker and Helen Nissenbaum, at the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University.…
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