Privacy
Privacy Links
- Echelon Personal web site by Paul Wolf concerned with ECHELON global surveillance system and other privacy threats. Links to other issue related sites.
- Bank Privacy Article and references regarding proposed federal regulation for the banking industry called "Know Your Customer."
- 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.
- Protecting Privacy Tips for ensuring the security of transactions online, on the telephone, and around the home.
- 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.
- Privacy News Links to headline news regarding data privacy taken from over a variety of sources.
- Stop Carnivore Dedicated to the sole purpose of stopping the deployment of the FBI's ISP spy tool called Carnivore.
- 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.
- Glen Robert's Full Disclosure Glen Roberts exposes sites that disclose private information such as names, addresses, social security numbers etc.
- Law and Technology Essays [Dr. R. Standler] Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues
- Web bugs Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.
- Invasion of Privacy School project on invasion of privacy. Links to some laws.
- NYC Surveillance Camera Project New York City has been installing cameras throughout the city. Has lots of information, including camera locations.
- 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.
- Club Recluse A Site for those who are interested in reclusveness and want to pursue it further.
- Hiding From the Man: How to Protect Your Privacy Comprehensive guide to protecting your privacy in cyberspace and the real world.
- Who Watches the Web? The latest news on Carnivore, Echelon and several other government efforts to monitor and censor private communications.
- 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.
- Backtalk: Keystroke Cops With the advent of technology that records every word an employee types, is there a right to privacy on the internet and at work? Share your views at Women.com
- The Privacy Page A resource for cryptography, encryption, or electronic privacy information.
- Big Brother Banks? FDIC has snooping plans The federal government wants banks to investigate you. Soon your banker will know more about you than anyone else in town. Banks must not only determine your correct identity, they must also know how you make your money, and how you spend it. Once you establish a pattern of deposits and withdrawals, banks must inform federal agencies when you deviate.
- Echelon: Questions asked in Australian Senate Bob Brown's speech concerning the Australian government's involvement with the Echelon spy network.
- Linda Tripp Indictment Raises New Questions and Conflicts Commentary and resources on the indictment of Linda Tripp by Maryland authorities for her secret recordings of Monica Lewinski. From About.Com
- MyPointExactly.com Links to a variety of security applications for computers. Also has a free test scan so see how secure your machine is. Includes explanations of many back doors to your computer.
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse A nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings.
- HowStuffWorks: How Wiretapping Works Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore.
- Privacy Now Campaign against supermarket tracking by discount cards. This site focuses on Kroger.
- Echelon Watch Encourages public discussion of the Echelon Network, an intelligence gathering organization, that is a potential threat to civil liberties, and to urge the governments of the world to protect our rights.
- Why protect your privacy ? Information about privacy by Markus Jansson.
- State Surveillance in the Internet. A paper on surveillance and surveillance theory on the Internet by Francisco Javier Bernal. Active link bibliography.
- Screen for genes A site concerned with the impact of the Human Genome Project and particularly maintaining genetic databases. Links to various related sites.
- CyberAtlantis.com News site regarding privacy and freedom issues. Links to global articles.
- 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.
- Privacilla.org Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies.
- Australia's Privacy Commissioner's Website Government site dealing with privacy issues. Has focus area on information technology and the Internet.
- Speak out on privacy Links to news articles concerning privacy related issues. Has forum and debate areas.
- Privacy Law In the USA Essay on privacy law in the United States, by Dr. R. Standler. Focuses on invasions of privacy by journalists and searches of garbage.
- Cryptome In Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon.
- National Organization for Non-Enumeration A nationwide movement dedicated to educating American citizens of their rights and responsibilities under the Federal Social Security Act, including the right to privacy and refusing to be enumerated under the Act.
- 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.
- California Bankers Oppose Snooping Plan The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Company) is proposing a plan called Know Your Customer which would require banking institutions to monitor unusual transactions of every customer and report them to the government.
- Privacy and Civil Liberties From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links.
- 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.
- AntiPolygraph.org Dedicated to exposing polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse, and seeking the abolishment of polygraph testing from the American workplace.
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