- AntiPolygraph.org - http://antipolygraph.org/
Dedicated to exposing polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse, and seeking the abolishment of polygraph testing from the American workplace.
- The Privacy Page - http://www.privacy.org/
A resource for cryptography, encryption, or electronic privacy information.
- PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com/privacy.html
Forum provided by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Cable & Wireless USA, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Telos Systems.
- NYC Surveillance Camera Project - http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/
New York City has been installing cameras throughout the city. Has lots of information, including camera locations.
- CyberAtlantis.com - http://CyberAtlantis.com
News site regarding privacy and freedom issues. Links to global articles.
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - http://www.privacyrights.org
A nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings.
- Privacy Times - http://www.privacytimes.com
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.
- Privacy and Civil Liberties - http://www.cpsr.org/dox/program/privacy/privacy.html
From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links.
- About Your Address - http://www.strangepages.net/address.html
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.
- Privacy Digest - http://www.PrivacyDigest.com/
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.
- Cryptome In - http://cryptome.org/index.html
Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon.
- Glen Robert's Full Disclosure - http://www.glr.com/
Glen exposes sites that disclose private information such as names, addresses, and social security numbers.
- Screen for genes - http://www.vic.tadd.btinternet.co.uk
A site concerned with the impact of the Human Genome Project and particularly maintaining genetic databases. Links to various related sites.
- Privacilla.org - http://www.privacilla.org/
Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies.
- Web bugs - http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-2247960.html
Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.
- State Surveillance in the Internet. - http://www.bernal.co.uk
A paper on surveillance and surveillance theory on the Internet by Francisco Javier Bernal. Active link bibliography.
- 4th Amendment - http://unquietmind.com/4th_amend.html
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.
- World Wide Wiretapping / Eavesdropping Problem - http://www.snapshield.com/Problem_www_fs.html
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.
- Invasion of Privacy - http://cmsu2.cmsu.edu/~mjb47400/Invasion_of_Privacy/Invasion.htm
School project on invasion of privacy. Links to some laws.
- Who Watches the Web? - http://www.tecsoc.org/persec/webwatch.htm
The latest news on Carnivore, Echelon and several other government efforts to monitor and censor private communications.
- HowStuffWorks: How Wiretapping Works - http://www.howstuffworks.com/wiretapping.htm
Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore.
- Privacy Avenue - http://www.privacyave.com
This site provides links to a variety of privacy related news, software, and issues.
- NCAAP - http://www.ncaap.com
Fighting to keep autopsy photos private.
- About.com: Carnivore - http://compnetworking.about.com/library/weekly/aa071900a.htm
Describes the networking sniffing software and the surrounding controversy.
- EPIC Carnivore Litigation - http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/
Legal documents presented by the privacy group seeking the release of all FBI records concerning Internet monitoring.
- Privacy South Africa - http://privacy.4mg.com/
List of privacy violators in South Africa with links. Also FAQs on how to protect yourself.
- Junkbusters - http://www.junkbusters.com/
Site details a variety of ways privacy is violated or data is shared. Has links for prevention.
- Privaterra - http://www.privaterra.org/
Provides human rights workers with security technology.
- About.com: Privacy Issues - http://civilliberty.about.com/cs/privacyrights/index.htm
News and resources concerning laws of privacy, including wiretapping.
- Guardian Special Report: Privacy on the Internet - http://www.guardian.co.uk/netprivacy/
Continuing coverage of news, analysis and commentary, including the RIP Act, plus links to government sites and international information and pressure groups.
- NYTimes.com - Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/technology/circuits/25GOOG.html
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.]
- Urban Druid - http://urbandruid.org/
Resources and news concerning privacy and fair use issues surrounding digital technologies.
- Defend Your Privacy - http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/
Opposes the US Health and Human Services regulation can force doctors to turn their patients' confidential medical records over to the government.
- Against TCPA - http://www.againsttcpa.com
Discussion of the privacy implications of Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Palladium.
- CBC Witness: Security Threat - http://www.cbc.ca/witness/security
A look at the post 9/11 surveillance society and how it impacts our privacy.
- ePrison: Art and Politics of Surveillance. - http://www.eprison.us/
Explores the art and politics of surveillance. The current Portland Surveillance Mapping Project aims at mapping closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in Portland, Oregon.
- UK Police Want Keys to Decode Private E-mail - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1999%2F03%2F06%2Fnspy06.html
Article from The Telegraph describes how British police want keys to decode private e-mail.
- The Surveillance Society - http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/199911/15_newsroom_privacy/
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.
- Carnivore Electronic Surveillance and Diagnostic Tool - http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress00/kerr090600.htm
Official statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the US House of Representatives regarding the use and oversight of the Carnivore Electronic Surveillance program.
- Privacy Spot - http://www.privacyspot.com
Tracks current news and laws related to privacy issues around the world
- Topix.net: Privacy - http://rss.topix.net/rss/news/privacy.xml
News about privacy, collected from various sources on the web.
- PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law - http://pipeda.blogspot.com
Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to PIPEDA and other Canadian and international privacy laws
- Keep your Secrets - http://www.keepyoursecrets.com/
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.
- CDT's Guide to Online Privacy - http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/table/
A guide intended to educate Internet users about online privacy and offer practical suggestions and policy recommendations.
- Wired: Separating Equifax from Fiction - http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/equifax_pr.html
Simson Garfinkel writes about information conglomerate Equifax. Best known as a credit bureau, the company also has its fingers in check approvals, insurance claims, and medical records. [Wired]
- EuroSOCAP - http://www.eurosocap.org/
Provides information on emerging European standards for confidentiality and privacy in healthcare among vulnerable patient populations. In particular, there is a fully searchable links facility which allow cross referencing of legislation across a number of European countries.
- No Place to Hide - http://www.noplacetohide.net/
"No Place To Hide" is a multimedia investigation into the marriage between private data collection and the US government's vastly expanded surveillance authorities in the wake of September 11.
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