About CDT

Intelligent Enterprise Magazine interviews Jim Dempsey, policy director at The Center for Democracy & Technology(CDT).

W.J. Mitchell: The evolution of architecture

At MIT World there is available this conference by Williams J. Mitchell, who is professor at the Media Lab. Formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, he also directs the Media Lab's Smart Cities research group.

Mr. Mitchell published last september this book
"Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City"
2005, The MIT Press

Guardian Interview

Genetics, Ethics and Privacy

Since 1865 when Mendel traced the inheritance patterns of certain traits in pea plants and showed that they could be described mathematically, genetics has not stop.

In 2003, Human Genoma Project announced that the project had been completed.

"By 2010, it is likely that predictive genetic tests will be available for as many as a dozen common conditions, enabling individuals to take preventive steps to reduce their risks of developing such disorders" The Boston Globe July 17, 2005

and an affordable price.

There are several centers who work on privacy & genetics:

• DNAnetwork.info, a website dedicated to research projects on DNA forensics, co-ordinated by Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
• The Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) is Duke's University's response to the Genome Revolution. The IGSP consists of a multidisciplinary networks of Centers, one of them, is the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy.

Links:

The Genetic Privacy Act (USA)
EPIC's Genetic Privacy web

The Shidler Center

The Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology at the University of Washington identifies and analyzes the impact of technological change on law, and examines the roles of innovation, incentives and competition in transforming domestic and global markets and legal institutions.

The Shidler Center publishes a Journal of Law, Commerce + Technology: where we can read an article about RFID & Legal Issues: "Whe small technology is a big deal: legal issues arising from business use of RFID" by Zachary Hostetter.

Big Brother is reading your blog

BusinessWeek publishes a report about social networks:

Social Networks: More Bubble Than Profit?

and

Big Brother Is Reading Your Blog

by Olga Kharif

These days, social networkers are concerned about protecting their privacy, not only from predators and scam artists, but from nosy employers and campus authorities