2009 News
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Bioethics Seminar Announced
Professor Geoff Hunt will present a seminar entitled 'Biometrics, Ethics and the Panopticon State' at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, next month (Wednesday 20th January 2010, 12-1pm).
The seminar, hosted by the University College’s Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, is an ethical exploration of the ramifications of the new technologies of personal identification such as face recognition, iris recognition, digital fingerprinting, web networks, transactions tracking, and surveillance and how these may be integrated into greatly enhancing the capacity of a country to track an individual.
Professor Hunt is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Bioethics and Emerging Technologies, St Mary’s University College and Professional Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology.
He is the ethics specialist for two European-funded nanotechnology projects (NanoImpactNet and NaPolyNet), co-editor of the world’s first book on ethics and risk in nanotechnology development (Nanotechnology: Risk, Ethics and Law) and led the British Standards Institution steering group on the labelling of nano-products.
He has lectured and published widely in the field of the ethics of professionalism and emerging technologies.
Entrance is free but places are limited. Please contact Mr Malcolm Britton, CBET Administrator at cbet@smuc.ac.uk for more information.
