Privacy - Non-US/Global/Regional/Local
International
Australia
- australia_cellular_crypto.article
- Bernard Lagan and Anne Davies' April
1993 article describing how Australian mobile phone companies have
over ridden objections by law enforcement agencies and begun
uncrackable networks.
- Australian
Computer Society (ACS) WWW Server
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Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA)
WWW Server
Austria
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ARGE Daten: Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Datenschutz
(The Austrian Society for Privacy and Data Protection
- ARGE DATEN wants to achieve that information technology and
telecommunication are used in a human way with social responsibility
and under protection of privacy. Information is provided to achieve
these aims.
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engagierte Computer ExpertInnen (eCE)
- As the name DBAI indicates, most of our research takes place in
the areas of Databases and Artificial Intelligence.
Belgium
- be_anti-crypto_94.law
- Text of a 1994 (and so far mostly or completely
unenforced - though this could change) law banning the use of
non-"escrowed" encryption in Belgium.
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Digitale Burgerbeweging Belgie (db.be)
- Digitale Burgerbeweging NederLand or short DB.NL strives for:
1.digital democracy (civil liberties such as freedom of expression,
protection of privacy, citizen's participation) 2.publicly useful
applications of information and communications technology
3.an accessible and user-friendly public digital network.
Canada
- 20021219-EFC-EFF-comments.html
- Comments of Electronic Frontier Canada and
Electronic Frontier Foundation
- com_priv_canadian.principles
- anonymous declaration of the Canadian
principles of privacy and telecommunication.
- cse_canada_sigint.overview
- Bill Robinson's April 1994 description of the
Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
- photo_radar_priv_canada_ipc.memo
- Information and Privacy Commissioner
Tom Wright's November 1993 memo warning
that Bill 47 (involving photo radar) would
infringe on citizens' privacy.
- BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association
- FIPA is a non-profit society dedicated to advancing freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada
- EF-Canada
- With Canadian Archives and contacts to help preserve privacy in
Canada
France
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French Encryption Archive
- (in French)
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Association des Utilisateurs d'Internet
- The AUI aims at standing for a large number of French and
French-speaking Internet users. Its activities includes providing
relevant information to Internet users, following and participating to Internet technical aspects improvements,
and acting in direction of a better understanding of what Internet
is, and what Internet means in terms of social and economical
developments.
Germany
- de_anti-crypto_policy.article
- "early warning" article about
Bundesministerium (Ministry of Internal Affairs) plan to outlaw all
use of encryption in Germany. June 1994. (Article from
_PC_Professionell_, translated into English.
Multinational
- 19980915_gilc_wassenaar.statement
- Global Internet Liberty
Campaign Member Statement on Wassenaar Arrangement: EFF & Other Civil
Liberties Groups Join International Call for the Removal of
Cryptography Controls From International Arrangement (Sept. 15, 1998;
ASCII text version.)
- ce_privacy_search_r95-13.recommendations
- Council of Europe's disturbing
recommendations for new search and seizure and privacy/crypto guidelines.
- ce_recommendation_effector.newsbyte
- summary from EFF's "EFFector"
newsletter of the privacy concerns raised by the C. of E. recommendations.
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European Union Data Protection Directive
- (full text)
Russia
- ukaz_crypto_rus_rfc1489.uu [uuencoded]
- Russian edict (*in Russian*) banning public
cryptography. A translation into English
is below.
[This version is in the format specified by RFC
1489, and the file has been uuencoded to
preserve it's integrity, as our system could
inadvertently try to convert it to the
US-English ASCII character set under several
circumstances. To read this file, your system
must support Cyrillic fonts and character
tables as specified in the RFC.
This is the same edict as the one below, but in
koi8 format (as used in Russian Unix systems),
and with some long names of agencies replaced
by abbreviations.]
- ukaz_crypto_rus_altcodes.uu [uuencoded]
- same text as ukaz_crypto_rus_rfc1489.uu
[This version is in Russian alt-codes
for the DOS-type PC. We have no idea
which code pages and fonts must be
supported, other than being Cyrillic
ones. The file has been uuencoded to
preserve it's integrity, as our system
could inadvertently try to conver it to
the US-English ASCII character set under
several circumstances. A special TSR,
driver, and/or viewer may be needed to
read this, but we are assured that Russians
will already know this and know how to
read it.]
- russian_crypto_ban_english.edict
- the Russian Presidential edict banning
public encryption, translated into English. (ASCII text)
- Solton on Encryption
Spain
- Spanish Data Protection Law (LORTAD)
- (Full text; en Español/in Spanish)
U.S. States
- CA
- directory containing Califorian privacy, crypto & security
issues material, including the SF initiative mandating electronic
fingerprinting of welfare recipients.
- GA
- directory pertaining to cryptography, security, anonymity and privacy
issues in the US state of Georgia.
- MA
- directory pertaining to cryptography, security and privacy
issues in Massachusetts.
- MN
- directory pertaining to cryptography, security and privacy
issues in Minnesota.
- NY
- directory pertaining to cryptography, security and privacy
issues in New York State.
- OH
- directory of information on privacy, cryptography and
security issues in Ohio (aka God's Country, The Promised Land, Land of
Enchantment, The Heart of It All).
- UK
- to directory of info on privacy, crypto and security
issues in the United Kingdom (Britain).
- VA
- to directory of info on privacy, crypto and security
issues in Virginia.
- VT
- to directory of info on privacy, crypto and security
issues in Vermont.
Links to Related Off-Site Resources
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EDUCAUSE
- The mission of EDUCAUSE is to help shape and enable transformational
change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management
of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning,
scholarship, research, and institutional management.
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Institute for Global Communications
- The Institute for Global Communications (IGC) is nonprofit
organization that provides alternative sources of information as well
as online access and comprehensive Internet services for progressive
individuals and organizations.
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Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
- The Association for Progressive Communications is a global
network of non-governmental organisations whose mission is to
empower and support organizations, social movements and individuals
in and through the use of information and communication technologies
to build strategic communities and initiatives for the purpose of
making meaningful contributions to equitable human development,
social justice, participatory political processes and environmental
sustainability."
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Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC)
- The Global Internet Liberty Campaign advocates prohibiting prior
censorship of on-line communication. Insisting that on-line free
expression not be restricted by indirect means such as excessively
restrictive governmental or private controls over computer hardware or
software, telecommunications infrastructure, or other essential
components of the Internet. (GILC has links to many other groups
around the world.)
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Internet Society (ISoc) -
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
- To assure the beneficial, open evolution of the global Internet
and its related internetworking technologies through leadership in
standards, issues, and education.
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PeaceNet
- Through PeaceNetª, take action for positive social change in the
areas of peace, social and economic justice, human rights and the
struggle against racism.
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Privacy International (PI)
- Privacy International is a human rights group formed in 1990 as
a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations. PI is
based in London, UK and has an office in Washington, D.C.