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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 Facial Recognition Systems Work - Article on FACEIT software. Law and Technology Essays [Dr. R. Standler] - Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues 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. AntiPolygraph.org - Dedicated to exposing polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse, and seeking the abolishment of polygraph testing from the American workplace. Cryptome - Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon. Junkbusters - Site details a variety of ways privacy is violated or data is shared. Has links for prevention. The Privacy Page - A resource for cryptography, encryption, or electronic privacy information. PRIVACY Forum - Forum provided by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Cable and 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. Privacilla.org - Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies. 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. 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 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. Echelon: spy satellite: Is there any Privacy? - Research paper discusses the privacy issues and laws concerning privacy as related to the Echelon program. 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. 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 Fundamental Rights Under Privacy in the USA - Annotated list of U.S. Supreme Court cases on privacy. Topix: Privacy - News about privacy, collected from various sources on the web. Privacy and Civil Liberties - From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner - Government site dealing with privacy issues. Has focus area on information technology and the Internet. HowStuffWorks: How Wiretapping Works - Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore. Web bugs - Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.
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