Privacy

Electronic Readings

• The "Privacy Act"
• The U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library -- Privacy and information access.
• The UN Human Rights statement contains a right to privacy provision in article 12.
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC maintains a useful set of links to issues on this topic.
• Besides the other links in this directory, you may also want to check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- they usualy have something to say about most things!
• CPSR maintains a directory containing several files and other directories related to privacy.
• "PRIVACY AND THE NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE: PRINCIPLES FOR PROVIDING AND USING PERSONAL INFORMATION", a report by the US Government Privacy Working Group.
• A report on the FBI proposal to develop a wiretap capability.
• The Privacy Pages.
• The page from MIT 6.805/STS085: Readings on Privacy Implications of Computer Networks
• Look at the Privacy Statement for student use of computing systems at the University of Delaware.
• A paper on Privacy in the Workplace from the Computer Law Report.
• Netscape's position statement on the export of encryption devices.
• The (now) Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy is an excellent source of materials on this topic.
• Consider looking up, or asking for information through one of the privacy newsgroups:
  • news:alt.privacy
  • alt.privacy.clipper