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Contact: Joe Hunter 617/552-0419 [email protected]
BOSTON COLLEGE TO HOST CONFERENCE ON ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGY
Experts from Multiple Disciplines to Discuss Privacy, Other Issues
How can privacy be protected in the digital age? Who should regulate the Internet? What are the ethics of business in cyberspace? These and other timely topics are the focus of a multidisciplinary conference on ethics and technology to be held at Boston College June 4 - 5.
Co-sponsored by Boston College, Loyola University-Chicago and Santa Clara University, the conference will bring together in one forum the leading business people, legal scholars, ethicists and technology professionals grappling with the troubling ethical issues raised by the Internet and computer technology.
A panel on privacy and electronic commerce will include Internet pioneers Marty Clague, formerly of IBM Global Networks, and Professor Mary Cronin of Boston College. American University's James Boyle will explore the ethics of regulating the new technology. Other panels will discuss such issues as the future of intellectual property, the implications of conducting a professional practice on the Web and the legalities of controlling the Internet.
Media coverage in invited, but should be arranged in advance by contacting Joe Hunter at 617/552-0419.
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What: "Ethics and Technology Conference" Where: Fulton Hall, Boston College Main Campus
Chestnut Hill, Mass. When: Friday and Saturday, June 4 - 5, 1999, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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