Group Assignments

Note: Please follow the new group assignments. Read this for some hints on writing a good briefing document.

Group Assignment #6 -- Cancelled

Situation: Use the time to work on your final projects. The schedule of presentations are found below. You're required to come at the start of your presentation hour and stay for the entire hour (so that you can support your fellow students).

Please be prepared to speak for 10 minutes. This isn't much time, and you'll have to decide what's most important to present. You're not expected to present all of your work, but you should present something in meaningful detail.

All presentations take place on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, in Maxwell Dworkin G125.

Group Assignment #5 (Due April 20 at 5pm)

Situation: In late 2008, we find that several national health records service providers have adopted Amazon's Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) as the back-end stoarge infrastructure of the increasingly popular personally controlled health records model that is sweeping the nation. A particularly bright and ambitious Amazon employee suggests that Amazon could extract aggregated anonymized data (with obvious monetary value) from the health records stored on their storage servers and offer these data to many different for-profit and non-profit entities. In the role of your stakeholder, you've been asked to write a memo that the leadership of your stateholder can send to Amazon commenting on this opportunity.

Groups and stakeholders for medical-privacy assignment

Group Assignment #4 (Due April 6 at 5pm)

Situation: You are a consultant, hired by your designated stakeholder, to produce a 5-page briefing document that summarizes and analyzes the stakeholder's position on data aggregation. You should carefully research your stakeholder's current publicized position on data aggregation and associated privacy statements. Briefly state this position in your briefing report, identify the justification for this policy, and assess its defensibility.

Groups and stakeholders for aggregation assignment

Group Assignment #3 (Due March 16 at 5pm)

Situation: You're working for a woman who wants to be elected governor of Massachusetts. Next Saturday (3/17/2007) she officially announces her candidacy, and your job is to make sure she always knows when she's being monitored by the press, by her competitors, or by the public. Your job is to write a briefing document explaining the types of surveillance she should reasonably expect. In addition, what is your recommendation for when she can relax and not worry that she's not acting in a governor-like manner?

Groups for surveillance assignment

Group Assignment #2 (Due March 2 at 5pm)

Your boss (in your role playing situation) has just received a call from "60 Minutes" saying that they want to come by and interview her about RFID tomorrow evening. What are the most difficult questions that reporter could ask, and what answers should she give?

Groups

Captain: Charles Baakel Captain: Rachel Popkin Captain: Joseph Christiana Captain: Teddy Sherrill

Captain: Richard Goettke

Captain:Hannah Ma Captain: Megan Harney

Captain: Ben Grubin