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Privacy
ACLU
American Civil Liberties
A Social, Technical
and Legal
Framework for Privacy Management and Policies
IEEE Transactions on engineering management, Vol. 52, no. 2, May 2005.
This
paper looks at privacy policies from nearly 50 web sites, surveys over
1000
Internet users, and examines what Internet users’ major expectations
are about
web site privacy.
BBBOnLine,
TRUSTe
The two leading online privacy seal programs in industry's effort to
promote
self-regulation of online privacy.
CDT's Guide To
Online Privacy
Guide to a variety of issues in online privacy, including a glossary of
terms.
CounterExploitation
CounterExploitation: Articles, tools, and utilities for securing the
computer,
protecting your privacy, and fighting censorship; "You have to be a
kind
of Jeffersonian citizen on the Web. Be aware, be educated, take
personal
action. If you're just a passive consumer, they will drive right over
you." -Tom Maddox, PrivacyPlace.
Electronic
Privacy Information Center
Online privacy advocacy organization.
EPIC Online Guide
This site provides an index of software that aims to protect identity
broken
out by various methodologies including encryption, anonymous surfing,
cookie
“busters”, firewalls, disk cleaners and a number of other tools.
Federal Data Mining
An extensive report prepared by the General Accounting Office (GAO) in
May
2004; describes use of data mining by 52 Federal agencies.
FTC Privacy
Initiatives
Federal Trade Commission's Privacy Initiatives
"FTC:
All Eyes on Consumer Privacy"
This article discusses the FTC will try to make consumer privacy a
higher
priority.
Full Coverage:
Online Privacy
Link to Yahoo News coverage for online privacy articles and news
stories.
"Internet
Surveillance Law After the USA Patriot Act: The Big Brother That Isn't"
Article that discusses the ways in which the Patriot Act has changed
laws
regarding Internet surveillance and Internet privacy issues.
KIDZ PRIVACY
A website sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission on
protecting
privacy on the web.
Markus Jansson's
Privacy
Website
Markus Jansson is a Finnish student and maintains a home page on
privacy issues
and how to make your computing environment more secure.
Microsoft’s Privacy
Statement.
Online Privacy
Alliance
Industry funded organization which promotes self-regulation and
responsible
treatment of customer privacy by online companies.
Open
Directory
Project on Privacy
The Open Directory Projects lists out various websites and links on the
topic
of online privacy.
Platform for
Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project
The Platform (P3P), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, an
emerging
industry standard provides a simple, automated way for users to gain
more
control over the use of personal information on Web sites they visit.
Privacilla.org
Privacilla is a unique Web-based project that seeks to capture
"privacy" as a public policy issue. On the pages of this site, you
will find privacy information and links that are designed for
policy-makers,
their staffs, the press, and the interested public.
"Privacy and
Discrimination in
Genetics"
This website, provided by the National Institutes of Health-Department
of
Energy, Task Force on Genetic Information and Insurance, provides a
comprehensive overview privacy, discrimination and legal issues.
"Privacy
vs. Internet Piracy"
This article talks about how Recording Industry Association of America
can get
names of people who are using Internet for downloading music illegally
and take
actions against them. Previously it was not legal to disclose the
identity of
private Internet users to any organization. This new law will be
helpful in
eliminating music piracy up to a certain level.
Privacy Matters
Extensive collection of privacy resources from Wired.
Privacy.net
A free web site that displays to the screen the type of information
collected
on the web server end when a user requests a web page. Very interesting
for
people that are not familiar with the type of data collected on each
web page
that is visited by a user.
Privacy
versus Piracy
An article that looks at the interaction between privacy and
intellectual
property law.
PrivacyTimes.com
Comprehensive website on privacy regulation and developments.
Privacy: Rights
Clearinghouse
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a non-profit organization that informs
people
on privacy issues.
Protecting Privacy on
the
Internet (Video)
A Google video series on Protecting Privacy on the Internet, where
various
speakers engage in an open discussion on how Google handled privacy
issues and
what challenges lie ahead.
A nice video on the privacy concerns for people using Facebook.
Technological
advances have increased the speed and
capability of communicating online. But they have also increased the
risk to
your security and privacy. How can you protect yourself? Watch this
video.
Proxy Surf
Sites
This site offers links to a number of proxy surf sites that purport to
allow
anonymous web surfing.
US Law and the
American
Internet Users
Vortex.com
A forum to discuss issues related to privacy in fields like
communication,
databases, etc.
Additional Links
http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2002doc.nsf/LinkTo/dsti-iccp-reg(2002)3-final
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s paper on
how to
effectively bridge the divergent national approaches to a citizen’s
expectation
of privacy on the Web.
http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm
This is a site provided by the Federal Trade Commission that collect
and store
information on your computer to be analyzed for privacy issues.
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