Sidebar: Online privacy resources

Computerworld -

• Computerworld QuickStudy on P3P
  
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center


• "Privacy Journal," the definitive newsletter on privacy


• "Privacy Software Review," useful reviews of privacy-related software


• "Privacy Digest," daily news updates on privacy and related issues


• Privacy.org, news, information and action suggestions about privacy


• The Electronic Frontiers Foundation's page on privacy


• "Anonymity and privacy on the Internet," with information on remailers


• The American Civil Liberties Union's privacy page


• A report on the Federal Privacy Act and its operation


• A Antispyware tools and information


• Steve Gibson's "Code of Backchannel Conduct" relating to spyware

• Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity From Plymouth Rock to the Internet, by Robert Ellis Smith; Privacy Journal, 2000. Explores the hidden niches of American history to discover the tug between Americans' yearning for privacy and their insatiable curiosity.


• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig; Basic Books, 2000.


• Compilation of State and Federal Privacy Laws, by Robert Ellis Smith; Privacy Journal, 2003.
  This 106-page reference book, published in 2002 and updated with a 2003 supplement, describes more than 700 state and federal laws on privacy and surveillance. A legal citation is included for each law. The laws are grouped by category, then listed alphabetically by state. Among the categories: bank records, credit bureaus, criminal records, electronic surveillance, employment, government agencies, identity theft, libraries, medical records, Social Security numbers, student records, telephone services, including telephone sales calls and testing in employment.


• Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, by Steven Levy; Viking Press, 2002


• Database Nation -- The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century, by Simson Garfinkel; O'Reilly & Associates, 2001


• Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security, by Matt Curtin; APress, 2001


• The Electronic Privacy Papers: Documents on the Battle for Privacy in the Age of Surveillance, by Bruce Schneier and David Banisar; John Wiley & Sons, 1997


• The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality, by Reg Whitaker; New Press, 1999. (This book was also reviewed in "Salon Technology.")


• The Hundredth Window: Protecting Your Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet, by Charles Jennings, Lori Fena and Esther Dyson; Simon & Shuster, 2000


• I Love the Internet, but I Want My Privacy, Too! by Chris Peterson; Prima Lifestyles, 1998


• In Pursuit of Privacy: Law, Ethics, and the Rise of Technology, by Judith Wagner DeCew; Cornell University Press, 1998


• Internet Privacy for Dummies, by John R. Levine, Ray Everett-Church, Gregg Stebben and David Lawrence; For Dummies, 2002


• Invasion of Privacy: How to Protect Yourself in the Digital Age, by Michael Hyatt; Regnery Publishing, 2001


• The Limits of Privacy, by Amitai Etzioni; Basic Books, 2000. (Reviewed in "Salon Technology.")


• Net Privacy: A Guide to Developing & Implementing an Ironclad eBusiness Privacy Plan, by Michael Erbschloe and John R. Vacca; McGraw-Hill, 2001


• None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic Commerce, and the European Privacy Directive, by Peter P. Swire and Robert E. Litan; Brookings Institution Press, 1998


• The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust, by Ann Cavoukian and Tyler Hamilton; McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2002


• Privacy in the Information Age, Fred H. Cate and Michael H. Armacost; The Brookings Institution, 1997


• Protect Your Privacy on the Internet, by Bryan Pfaffenberger; John Wiley and Sons, 1997


• Protecting Yourself Online: The Definitive Resource on Safety, Freedom and Privacy in Cyberspace, by Robert Gelman and Stanton McClandish; HarperCollins, 1998


• Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, by Bruce Schneier; John Wiley & Sons, 2004


• Security for Ubiquitous Computing, by Frank Stajano; John Wiley & Sons, 2002


• Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape, edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg; MIT Press, 1998. Ten important essays on data protection issues


• Web Security Privacy & Commerce, 2nd Edition, by Simson Garfinkel; O'Reilly & Associates, 2002


• Web Privacy With P3P, by Lorrie Faith Cranor; O'Reilly & Associates, 2002