Seminários

Under EU Law, Member States are compelled to engage in reciprocal automated forensic DNA profile exchange for stepping up on cross-border cooperation, particularly in combating terrorism and cross-border crime. The ethical implications of this transnational DNA data exchange are paramount. So far, the academic debate has focused on challenges to data protection and privacy safeguards, threats to the presumption of innocence, and issues of transparency, accountability and trust. In this presentation I will explore what the concept of ethics means to professionals actively involved in transnational DNA data for fighting criminality. Their narratives display a fluid ethical boundary work between science and non-science, combined with the dynamic management of controversies, both of which are seen as ways to lend legitimacy and objectivity to scientific work. Ethical boundary work involves diverse fluid forms: as a boundary between science/ethics, science/criminal justice system, and good and bad science. Controversies related to social accountability and transparency are negotiated through the lens of opening science to the public.

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O Seminário é de entrada livre. A requisição de certificado e/ou declaração de presença deverá ser efetuada no dia do evento na Secretaria do ISPUP.