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Privacy :
This category is for sites on privacy issues, both in the home as well as in private communications.

Websites submitted here must be privacy related and in English. Sites in other languages should be submitted to the appropriate World subcategory.

Associated Categories for Privacy
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Advocacy Groups
54 web sites matced for Privacy
Law and Technology Essays [Dr. R. Standler]
Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues

PRIVACY Forum
Forum provided by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Cable & Wireless USA, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Telos Systems.

NYC Surveillance Camera Project
New York City has been installing cameras throughout the city. Has lots of information, including camera locations.

CyberAtlantis.com
News site regarding privacy and freedom issues. Links to global articles.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
A nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings.

Privacy Times
Privacy Times (Newsletter) covers information law and policy, including Internet privacy, Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, financial, medical and communications privacy, and EU Directive.

Privacy and Civil Liberties
From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links.

Hiding From the Man: How to Protect Your Privacy
Comprehensive guide to protecting your privacy in cyberspace and the real world.

About Your Address
Under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts anyone can request your personal details from any US government agency. Information about the rules and instructions on how to get the information.

Privacy Digest
Covers the items directly and indirectly impacting your privacy such as cryptography, wiretaps, free speech, DNA and genetic testing, and database tracking in general. Archive goes back to 1997.

Cryptome In
Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon.

Glen Robert's Full Disclosure
Glen exposes sites that disclose private information such as names, addresses, and social security numbers.

Australia's Privacy Commissioner's Website
Government site dealing with privacy issues. Has focus area on information technology and the Internet.

Screen for genes
A site concerned with the impact of the Human Genome Project and particularly maintaining genetic databases. Links to various related sites.

Privacilla.org
Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies.

Web bugs
Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.

State Surveillance in the Internet.
A paper on surveillance and surveillance theory on the Internet by Francisco Javier Bernal. Active link bibliography.

4th Amendment
A web magazine with dissenting opinions about a variety of topics, including privacy issues such as Carnivore and Echelon. Has links to a variety of issues.

Echelon: Questions asked in Australian Senate
Bob Brown's speech concerning the Australian government's involvement with the Echelon spy network.

World Wide Wiretapping / Eavesdropping Problem
Every week updating unique list of wiretapping and eavesdropping cases around the world, abuse of phone lines for commercial espionage, financial fraud, invasion of security and assaults on privacy.

Who Watches the Web?
The latest news on Carnivore, Echelon and several other government efforts to monitor and censor private communications.

HowStuffWorks: How Wiretapping Works
Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore.

Privacy Avenue
This site provides links to a variety of privacy related news, software, and issues.

NCAAP
Fighting to keep autopsy photos private.

About.com: Carnivore
Describes the networking sniffing software and the surrounding controversy.

EPIC Carnivore Litigation
Legal documents presented by the privacy group seeking the release of all FBI records concerning Internet monitoring.

Privacy South Africa
List of privacy violators in South Africa with links. Also FAQs on how to protect yourself.

Junkbusters
Site details a variety of ways privacy is violated or data is shared. Has links for prevention.

Privaterra
Provides human rights workers with security technology.

About.com: Privacy Issues
News and resources concerning laws of privacy, including wiretapping.

National I.D. Cards - a threat to liberty
Information and links to articles exposing the dangers of National ID Cards.

NYTimes.com - Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
The combined power of the Internet, search engines and archival databases can enable almost anyone to find information about almost anyone else. As a result, people are trying to reduce their electronic presence and discovering that it is not as simple as it would seem. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.]

Prime recent and proposed attacks on civil rights in the United Kingdom
Document shows a detailed list of those rights of UK citizens challenged and the consequences.

Urban Druid
Resources and news concerning privacy and fair use issues surrounding digital technologies.

Wired News: Privacy Matters
Collection of recent "Wired" articles on the issue.

Echelon: spy satellite: Is there any Privacy?
Research paper discusses the privacy issues and laws concerning privacy as related to the Echelon program.

Against TCPA
Discussion of the privacy implications of Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Palladium.

ePrison: Art and Politics of Surveillance.
Explores the art and politics of surveillance. The current Portland Surveillance Mapping Project aims at mapping closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in Portland, Oregon.

UK Police Want Keys to Decode Private E-mail
Article from The Telegraph describes how British police want keys to decode private e-mail.

The Surveillance Society
Americans enjoy unlimited benefits from new technologies in a wired world. But those wires send information in two directions, and the access to our personal data has never been more open for abuse. Online resource for on-air features.

Carnivore Electronic Surveillance and Diagnostic Tool
Official statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the US House of Representatives regarding the use and oversight of the Carnivore Electronic Surveillance program.

Privacy Spot
Tracks current news and laws related to privacy issues around the world

Spyware: Research, Testing, Legislation, and Suits
Original research on methods and effects of spyware, and index to recent legislation and lawsuits seeking to block spyware.

PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law
Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to PIPEDA and other Canadian and international privacy laws

Keep your Secrets
Maintain your privacy and keep your secrets, with effective techniques of verbal deception, evasion, lying, cover-story, and misdirection. Online examples and suggestions for evaluating risks of secrecy as well as suggestions for hiding physical objects as well as hiding activities.

The Privacy Marketing Review
Thoughts on information privacy and the relationship marketing concept.

CDT's Guide to Online Privacy
A guide intended to educate Internet users about online privacy and offer practical suggestions and policy recommendations.

Wired: Separating Equifax from Fiction
Simson Garfinkel writes about information conglomerate Equifax. Best known as a credit bureau, the company also has its fingers in check approvals, insurance claims, and medical records. [Wired]

EuroSOCAP
Provides information on emerging European standards for confidentiality and privacy in healthcare among vulnerable patient populations. In particular, there is a fully searchable links facility which allow cross referencing of legislation across a number of European countries.

No Place to Hide
"No Place To Hide" is a multimedia investigation into the marriage between private data collection and the US government's vastly expanded surveillance authorities in the wake of September 11.

Against TCPA
Discussion of the privacy implications of Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Palladium.

Carnivore Electronic Surveillance and Diagnostic Tool
Official statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the US House of Representatives regarding the use and oversight of the Carnivore Electronic Surveillance program.

Standler, Dr. Ronald B.
Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues.

Australian Privacy Commissioner
Contains information about Australia's Privacy Act and general privacy issues.

 
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