Sealing and the Medical Profession — Litigation as Fourth Estate?

There are some things we know nothing about until someone sues someone else. (I’ll forgive you if you’re thinking about marital disputes…) In the newsgathering context, this is extremely important. Well-heeled interests make a regular practice of hyper-secrecy as a way to preserve competitive advantages.  Litigation often provides the only vehicle for reporters to find [...]

Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired, Discusses “Does Privacy Matter?”

Please join us on Tuesday, December 15 for the weekly ISP speaker series, featuring Wired Executive Editor Thomas Goetz discussing “Does Privacy Matter? Medical Information in a Time of Collective Wisdom.” The event will take place at 4:10 p.m. in Room 121 of Yale Law School. Refreshments will be provided.  The event is sponsored by [...]

Talk Tomorrow: Open Data and Code in Bioinformatics

I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow afternoon in Mark Gerstein’s group in the Bioinformatics department here at Yale. I’ll be telling the story of this summer’s Toronto round of talks on data release in the genome sequencing community and leading a deeper discussion on what open data and code means for bioinformatics. My working title [...]

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