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• - 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.
  
• - News and resources concerning laws of privacy, including wiretapping.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues
  
• - Article from The Telegraph describes how British police want keys to decode private e-mail.
  
• - Glen exposes sites that disclose private information such as names, addresses, and social security numbers.
  
• - A site concerned with the impact of the Human Genome Project and particularly maintaining genetic databases. Links to various related sites.
  
• - 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.
  
• - "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.
  
• - Document shows a detailed list of those rights of UK citizens challenged and the consequences.
  
• - The latest news on Carnivore, Echelon and several other government efforts to monitor and censor private communications.
  
• - Bob Brown's speech concerning the Australian government's involvement with the Echelon spy network.
  
• - A look at the post 9/11 surveillance society and how it impacts our privacy.
  
• - Tracks current news and laws related to privacy issues around the world
  
• - Government site dealing with privacy issues. Has focus area on information technology and the Internet.
  
• - Resources and news concerning privacy and fair use issues surrounding digital technologies.
  
• - Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon.
  
• - Continuing coverage of news, analysis and commentary, including the RIP Act, plus links to government sites and international information and pressure groups.
  
• - Dedicated to exposing polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse, and seeking the abolishment of polygraph testing from the American workplace.
  
• - Comprehensive guide to protecting your privacy in cyberspace and the real world.
  
• - Article on FACEIT software.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Annotated list of U.S. Supreme Court cases on privacy.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Site details a variety of ways privacy is violated or data is shared. Has links for prevention.
  
• - Explores the art and politics of surveillance. The current Portland Surveillance Mapping Project aims at mapping closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in Portland, Oregon.
  
• - A guide intended to educate Internet users about online privacy and offer practical suggestions and policy recommendations.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Research paper discusses the privacy issues and laws concerning privacy as related to the Echelon program.
  
• - Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.
  
• - Collection of recent "Wired" articles on the issue.
  
• - 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
  
• - Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore.
  
• - Privacy and human rights issues blog.
  
• - 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 object
  
• - A paper on surveillance and surveillance theory on the Internet by Francisco Javier Bernal. Active link bibliography.
  
• - Opposes the US Health and Human Services regulation can force doctors to turn their patients' confidential medical records over to the government.
  
• - Describes the networking sniffing software and the surrounding controversy.
  
• - Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to PIPEDA and other Canadian and international privacy laws
  
• - Fighting to keep autopsy photos private.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Original research on methods and effects of spyware, and index to recent legislation and lawsuits seeking to block spyware.
  
• - A resource for cryptography, encryption, or electronic privacy information.
  
• - Provides human rights workers with security technology.
  
• - News site regarding privacy and freedom issues. Links to global articles.
  
• - Forum provided by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Cable & Wireless USA, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Telos Systems.
  
• - Legal documents presented by the privacy group seeking the release of all FBI records concerning Internet monitoring.
  
• - Thoughts on information privacy and the relationship marketing concept.
  
• - Discussion of the privacy implications of Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Palladium.
  
• - This site provides links to a variety of privacy related news, software, and issues.
  
• - From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links.
  
• - 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
  
• - 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]
  
• - List of privacy violators in South Africa with links. Also FAQs on how to protect yourself.
  
• - A nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings.
  
• - Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies.
  
• - New York City has been installing cameras throughout the city. Has lots of information, including camera locations.
  
• - Information and links to articles exposing the dangers of National ID Cards.
  
• - School project on invasion of privacy. Links to some laws.
  
• - 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.