Weekend Voices 5/31/08

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Executive Producer: Amy Browne

Topic: Report from the 2008 Computers Freedom Privacy Conference. This program featured presentations from the panel on Software Rights and Responsibilities.

What are the dangers of using software to determine eligibility for public health and other benefit programs?
What, if any, are the legal controls available to regulate the use of software agents?  What additional legal or technical steps might be taken?

Speakers: Samir Chopra, Brooklyn College;  Frank Pasquale, Seton Hall Law School;  Danielle Citron, Univ. of Maryland Law School;  James Grimmelmann, New York Law School

RadioActive 5/29/08

Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Topic:  An interview with Bruce Gagnon, Founder and Coordinator of Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.

Two leading peace activists in the Czech Republic began an unlimited hunger strike on May 13 in protest of U.S. plans to deploy a so-called “missile defense” radar in their country.  The hunger strike and protests are now spreading throughout Europe and other parts of the world including the U.S.
Here in Maine, Bruce Gagnon who coordinates the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, joined the hunger strike on May 24 and vows to continue on with it until the Czech strikers quit.

FMI: www.nonviolence.cz , www.space4peace.org,