Privacy - Email, Internet, Web

March 17, 2005

US Army Memo on Safeguarding Email Privacy in Case of Death

Privacy - E-Mail, Internet, Web Archive

20020410_joint_co_comments_pr.html

EFF Media Release: EFF and Broadcasters Comment - Copyright Office Threatens Internet Radio Privacy. San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and KPFA & KFCF radio stations urged the U.S. Copyright Office on Friday to modify proposed webcasting regulations to preserve listener privacy. In an unprecedented invasion of listener privacy, the Copyright Office has proposed that webcasters be required to gather and report to copyright owners information about individual listeners. There is an April 26 deadline for filing comments. (Apr. 10, 2002)

20020405_joint_co_comments.html

Joint comments of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Electronic Information Privacy Center (EPIC), and the KPFA & KFCF radio stations, to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the privacy threats inherent in, and anti-competitive nature of, proposed regulation 67 Fed. Reg. 5761, dealing with statutory licensing of Internet radio (Apr. 5, 2002)

20020405_joint_co_comments.pdf

ecpa.law

the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, with relevant sections of other laws as modified by the ECPA (these annotations by EFF staff counsel Mike Godwin and Shari Steele).

ecpa_laymans_view.article

Mike Riddle, "THE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS PRIVACY ACT OF 1986: A LAYMAN'S VIEW". The paper covers the two main sections of the act, Interception of Communications and Stored Communications and Records Access. Plain, clear text about a complicated issue.

email.biblio

File containing Erik Thelan's (Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin) Jan 1989 bibliography of works on e-mail and other forms of electronic messaging and networked communications. b

email_privacy.biblio

File containing Stacy Veeder's December 1991 bibliography of articles about privacy and email.

email_privacy.faq

Frequently Asked Questions About E-Mail Privacy by Andre Bacard, Author of THE COMPUTER PRIVACY HANDBOOK

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Censorship/Censorware: Directory of information on Internet content filtering, labelling and rating, and monitoring of internet activity with "snoop" software
Konop_v_Hawaiian_Airlines/: Directory of information on the Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines case in which it is hoped to prove that electronic communications have at least the legal privacy protection level against government surveillance as telephones, and that First Ammendment protection applies fully to them as well. The case, if it goes well, could rectify a bad, erroneous judgement on the part of the 5th Circuit who held in the Steve Jackson Games case (which otherwise was a very good decision) that the Electronic Communication Privac Act (ECPA) did not protect stored electronic communications, only those in transit, from unauthorized interception.
SJG/: directory of documents pertaining to the Steve Jackson Games v. US Secret Service case, and several related "Hacker Crackdown" and "Operation Sundevil" cases, including the Legion of Doom/Jolnet, and Phrack/Neidorf/Riggs cases. The SJG case first applied the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to Internet commmunications. Though it set an important precedent, and vindicated vital online free speech rights as well, it was not a toatl victory. Portions of ECPA were incorrectly held to not apply to this case. This situation may (as of Mar. 2001) be rectified by Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines.
Web Bug FAQ: Information on online (and offline, but computer-related) profiling (dossier-building) on individuals. Cookies are one of the major ways people are tracked on the web and webbugs aka web bugs are another way one can be tracked. Cookies can be turned off and refused, and if you want to avoid personal tracking by webbugs they should be turned off as webbugs are dependent on cookies already in your system.

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Cyberporn discussion page: from www.Speakout.com, a non-partisan, political portal website that covers a variety of issues facing the American people today.