Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uflorida!cs.fau.edu!theo From: theo.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (Theo Heavey) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: EFF Chapters Keywords: EFF college academia chapters Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 16:09:01 GMT References: <1991Mar19.213148.14254@vpnet.chi.il.us> Sender: bbs@cs.fau.edu (Waffle BBS) Organization: Florida Atlantic University Lines: 22 louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes: > One thing I would like to see, and I think it might work out well, is the > creation of EFF chapters at colleges. ACM does this, and although their > agenda is different, it seems to work quite well with respect to informing > students and teachers about computers. > What do you mean by saying that ACM has a different agenda. Yes, ACM does NOT take a legal or political stand on these issues. RATHER, the chapters share information regarding issues in computing and let the membership decide as to their own point of view. We cover ethics in one of our SIGs and here at FAU at least we try to discuss the ethical/legal implications of our actions in academia as well as the computing environment. > If the EFF did this, they would be addressing some of the problems of the > electronic frontier at the basic level -- the corporate employees, lawyers, > programmers, etc. of the future. > > The chapters could sponsor lectures about Computer Use In Business and The > Responsibilty Therein and so on. Basically, adress the same issues that