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42Genetically Engineered Animals and the Ethics of Food LabelingIn Paul Weirich (ed.), Labeling Genetically Modified Food: The Philosophical and Legal Debate, Oup Usa. pp. 63--87. 2007.The current debate about labeling genetically engineered (GE) food focuses on food derived from GE crops, neglecting food derived from GE animals. This is not surprising, as GE animal products have not yet reached the market. Participants in the debate may also be assuming that conclusions about GE crops automatically extend to GE animals. But there are two GE animals - the Enviropig and the AquAdvantage Bred salmon - that are approaching the market, animals raise more ethical issues than plants…Read more
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75Privacy and Positive Intellectual FreedomJournal of Social Philosophy 45 (3): 390-407. 2014.Privacy is often linked to freedom. Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures is a hallmark of a free society, and pervasive state‐sponsored surveillance is generally considered to correlate closely with authoritarianism. One link between privacy and freedom is prominent in the library and information studies field and has recently been receiving attention in legal and philosophical scholarship. Specifically, scholars and professionals argue that privacy is an essential component of …Read more
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66The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information, by Frank Pasquale. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 320 pp. ISBN 978–0674368279 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 26 (4): 568-571. 2016.
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402Justifying Public Health Surveillance: Basic Interests, Unreasonable Exercise, and PrivacyKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 22 (1): 1-33. 2012.Surveillance plays a crucial role in public health, and for obvious reasons conflicts with individual privacy. This paper argues that the predominant approach to the conflict is problematic, and then offers an alternative. It outlines a Basic Interests Approach to public health measures, and the Unreasonable Exercise Argument, which sets forth conditions under which individuals may justifiably exercise individual privacy claims that conflict with public health goals. The view articulated is comp…Read more
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41Medical privacy and the public's right to vote: What presidential candidates should discloseJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (4). 2006.We argue that while presidential candidates have the right to medical privacy, the public nature and importance of the presidency generates a moral requirement that candidates waive those rights in certain circumstances. Specifically, candidates are required to disclose information about medical conditions that are likely to seriously undermine their ability to fulfill what we call the "core functions" of the office of the presidency. This requirement exists because (1) people have the right to …Read more
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546Privacy and the USA patriot act: Rights, the value of rights, and autonomyLaw and Philosophy 26 (2): 119-159. 2007.Civil liberty and privacy advocates have criticized the USA PATRIOT Act (Act) on numerous grounds since it was passed in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. Two of the primary targets of those criticisms are the Act’s sneak-and-peek search provision, which allows law enforcement agents to conduct searches without informing the search’s subjects, and the business records provision, which allows agents to secretly subpoena a variety of information – most notoriously, library borrow…Read more
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