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Thursday, August 29, 2002
http://www.idg.net/ic_940272_1794_9-10000.html Can a Computer Have a Conscience? Martyn Williams, IDG News Service An IBM researcher is building a database that applies a physician's code of ethics to the way it handles your personal data. Most people don't think twice about offering any information to their doctor or physician, and possible misuse of the data won't keep them up at night worrying. But when it comes to supplying the most mundane personal information for storage in a computer database, the reaction is different. With headlines telling of purposeful and inadvertent data leaks and system intrusions, people are becoming increasingly aware of the amount of personal data held on them in a myriad of databases from government agencies to credit card companies, their employer or even the local dry cleaners. A researcher at IBM is hoping to change this air of mistrust by duplicating the very basis of our trust in our physicians....
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