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The Privacy Forum Community
Created on 2002-11-27 09:58:39 (#792300), last updated 2008-12-06
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Basic Info| Name: | Privacy Forum |
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| Membership: | Open |
| Posting Access: | All Members |
AboutPRIVACY IS A HUMAN RIGHT
Our fundamental right to privacy is increasingly being threatened by intrusive government agencies, corporate marketing and human resources departments, identity thieves, information brokers, and cyber-stalkers.
This is a place to share news, information, opinions, and advice about any aspect of privacy: practical, philosophical, social, legal, political, technical, or technological.
Law:
Government:
Organizations:
Media:
Tools:
Our fundamental right to privacy is increasingly being threatened by intrusive government agencies, corporate marketing and human resources departments, identity thieves, information brokers, and cyber-stalkers.
This is a place to share news, information, opinions, and advice about any aspect of privacy: practical, philosophical, social, legal, political, technical, or technological.
Law:
- The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with annotations
- The Privacy Act of 1974
- The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA)
- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)
- Changes to the electronic surveillance laws (ECPA, FISA, and the Communications Act) and the federal anti-hacking statute (the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), made by Title II and sections 814 and 815 of the USA PATRIOT Act (PDF)
Government:
- Federal Trade Commission - Privacy Initiatives
- U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Information and Privacy
Organizations:
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)
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cdt_feed - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion And Numbering (CASPIAN)
- Cryptome cryptome
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) -- Privacy Now Campaign
- Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
- Health Privacy Project
- Junkbusters
- Online Privacy Alliance (OPA) (an industry group)
- Privacilla
- Privacy International
- Privacy.Net
- Privacy.Org privacy_org
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC)
Media:
- The Surveillance Society: The Erosion of Privacy in America
A project of Minnesota Public Radio - Wired: Privacy Matters wiredtopstories
- Declan McCullagh's Politech politech_bot
Tools:
- The International PGP Home Page
- The Proxomitron
- GuideScope
- Lavasoft
- Spyware Info
- SpyBot Search & Destroy
- Anonymizer
- EPIC Guide to Privacy Tools
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