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- 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.
unquietmind.com/4th_amend.html
- 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.
www.strangepages.net/address.html
- About.com: Privacy Issues - News and resources concerning laws of privacy, including wiretapping.
civilliberty.about.com/cs/privacyrights/index.htm
- About.com: Carnivore - Describes the networking sniffing software and the surrounding controversy.
compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa071900a.htm
- American Citizens For Family Privacy - Group organizing to hacv autopsy photos declared private as part of medical records. Has links to various states and their laws. Has a forum.
www.acffp.com
- AnonymityCity.com - Learn how to preserve your online privacy.
www.anonymitycity.com
- Anti-keylogger - Application to prevent key stroke monitoring. Currently not available for Windows NT or XP.
www.anti-keyloggers.com
- AntiPolygraph.org - Dedicated to exposing polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse, and seeking the abolishment of polygraph testing from the American workplace.
antipolygraph.org
- Australia's Privacy Commissioner's Website - Government site dealing with privacy issues. Has focus area on information technology and the Internet.
www.privacy.gov.au
- 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.
www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19981123_xex_big_brother_.shtml
- 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.
www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19981126_xex_california_b.shtml
- California Privacy Protection - Site seeks to educate and assist consumers in California on database privacy matters.
www.caprivacyprotection.org
- Club Recluse - A Site for those who are interested in reclusiveness and want to pursue it further.
www.clubrecluse.com
- Cryptography Links - Information on cryptography & information security.
www.c4i.org/erehwon/crypto.html
- Cryptome In - Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon.
cryptome.org/index.html
- CyberAtlantis.com - News site regarding privacy and freedom issues. Links to global articles.
CyberAtlantis.com
- 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.
www.echelonwatch.org
- Echelon: Questions asked in Australian Senate - Bob Brown's speech concerning the Australian government's involvement with the Echelon spy network.
www.geocities.com/pwdyson/brownspeech.html
- EPIC Carnivore Litigation - Legal documents presented by the privacy group seeking the release of all FBI records concerning Internet monitoring.
www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore
- FBI: Carnivore Diagnostic Tool - Official description of the FBI's surveillance software.
www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/carnivore/carnivore.htm
- Glass Watchdog - Free/Open Source solutions for civil society in cyberspace with daily updates on seminars, conferences, user groups, advocacy action, Free/Open Source privacy and security software, news articles, legal decisions and precedents, legislation and treaties
www.cloud9.net/~drs/glasswatchdog
- Glen Robert's Full Disclosure - Glen Roberts exposes sites that disclose private information such as names, addresses, social security numbers etc.
www.glr.com
- Government Secret Searches - HR 2987 - Commentary by David Bailey on HR 2987 (The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 1999). Has link to bill's full text as well as Congressional links.
www.davidbailey.com/hr2987.htm
- Guardian Special Report: Privacy on the Internet - Continuing coverage of news, analysis and commentary, including the RIP Act, plus links to government sites and international information and pressure groups.
www.guardian.co.uk/netprivacy
- Hiding From the Man: How to Protect Your Privacy - Comprehensive guide to protecting your privacy in cyberspace and the real world.
www.chiprowe.com/articles/privacy.html
- HowStuffWorks: How Facial Recognition Systems Work - Article on FACEIT software.
www.howstuffworks.com/facial-recognition.htm
- HowStuffWorks: How Wiretapping Works - Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore.
www.howstuffworks.com/wiretapping.htm
- Invasion of Privacy - School project on invasion of privacy. Links to some laws.
cmsu2.cmsu.edu/~mjb47400/Invasion_of_Privacy/Invasion.htm
- Junkbusters - Site details a variety of ways privacy is violated or data is shared. Has links for prevention.
www.junkbusters.com
- 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.
www.hoerl.com/secret.html
- Law and Technology Essays [Dr. R. Standler] - Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues
www.rbs2.com
- 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
law.about.com/library/weekly/aa080299.htm
- 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.
www.mypointexactly.com
- National I.D. Cards - a threat to liberty - Information and links to articles exposing the dangers of National ID Cards.
www.angelfire.com/pa/sergeman/issues/abuseofpower/natidcard.html
- NCAAP - Fighting to keep autopsy photos private.
www.ncaap.com
- NYC Surveillance Camera Project - New York City has been installing cameras throughout the city. Has lots of information, including camera locations.
www.mediaeater.com/cameras
- 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.]
www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/circuits/25GOOG.html
- 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.
www.magnacartaplus.org/civil-liberties/attacks.htm
- Privacilla.org - Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies.
www.privacilla.org
- Privacy and Civil Liberties - From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links.
www.cpsr.org/dox/program/privacy/privacy.html
- Privacy Avenue - This site provides links to a variety of privacy related news, software, and issues.
www.privacyave.com
- 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.
www.PrivacyDigest.com
- Privacy Exposed - Provides privacy related news stories from around the web.
www.privacyexposed.com
- 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.
www.vortex.com/privacy.html
- 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.
www.rbs2.com/privacy.htm
- Privacy News - Links to headline news regarding data privacy taken from over a variety of sources.
w.moreover.com/personaldataprivacy
- Privacy Now - Campaign against supermarket tracking by discount cards. This site focuses on Kroger.
www.privacy-now.org
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - A nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings.
www.privacyrights.org
- Privacy South Africa - List of privacy violators in South Africa with links. Also FAQs on how to protect yourself.
privacy.4mg.com
- 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.
www.privacytimes.com
- Privaterra - Provides human rights workers with security technology.
www.privaterra.org
- RighttoPrivacy.com - News forum site about issues of privacy.
www.rightoprivacy.com
- Screen for genes - A site concerned with the impact of the Human Genome Project and particularly maintaining genetic databases. Links to various related sites.
www.vic.tadd.btinternet.co.uk
- Speak out on privacy - Links to news articles concerning privacy related issues. Has forum and debate areas.
speakout.com/activism/privacy
- State Surveillance in the Internet. - A paper on surveillance and surveillance theory on the Internet by Francisco Javier Bernal. Active link bibliography.
www.bernal.co.uk
- Stop Carnivore - Dedicated to the sole purpose of stopping the deployment of the FBI's ISP spy tool called Carnivore.
www.stopcarnivore.org
- The Privacy Page - A resource for cryptography, encryption, or electronic privacy information.
www.privacy.org
- 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.
news.mpr.org/features/199911/15_newsroom_privacy
- Visionic Corporation - Makers of FACEIT Face Recognition software.
www.visionics.com/faceit
- Web bugs - Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.
news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2247960.html
- Who Watches the Web? - The latest news on Carnivore, Echelon and several other government efforts to monitor and censor private communications.
www.tecsoc.org/persec/webwatch.htm
- Why protect your privacy ? - Information about privacy by Markus Jansson.
personal.inet.fi/koti/markus.jansson/privacy.htm
- 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.
www.snapshield.com/Problem_www_fs.html
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