EFF "Privacy - Global/National Information Infrastructure" Archive

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iitf_principles.comments

File containing April 1994 'Principles for Providing and Using Personal Information,' a commentary on the declaration below.

iitf_principles.draft

File containing IITF's April 1994 declaration of the need to protect individual privacy in an expanding information age acknowledging the responsibilities of governmnets, individuals and other "information collecting" groups. Unfortunately, this proposal is severely lacking in many areas, and in several cases actually weakens already-existing govt. privacy policies.

iitf_principles_comments.eff

File containing the EFF's July 1994 response to the IITF declaration (see iitf_principles.draft). This document includes recommendations and revisions suggested by the EFF to strengthen the IITF position on privacy.

iitf_principles_rfc.old

File containing June 1994 request for comments from the public on the IITF privacy principles draft mentioned above.

niiac_privacy_principles_1194.draft

This is a draft of the NII Advisory Council Mega-Project III's privacy principles statement. Mega-Project III is chaired by Esther Dyson, a member of the EFF Board of Directors. The NII Advisory Council is composed of individuals from the publishing, telecommunications, computer, and other fields, and serves as a civilian advisory board for the Administration on issues regarding information infrastructure.

nren_privacy_cpsr.statement

File containing July 22, 1992 testimony of Marc Rotenberg (Washington Director, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility) before the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science regarding privacy protection and the NCLIS's possible leadership role.

ota_priv_sec.report

File containing the large, detailed report from the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment on "Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments". Focuses on several issues, including U.S. crypto export restrictions, key "escrow", etc. Dated September 1994.

ota_priv_sec_report.summary

File containing brief summary of the above-mentioned (ota_priv_sec.report) report.

set-top_user_tracking.note

File containing Jeremy Allaire's July 1994 article on interactive technologies, marketing and advertising.

settop_box_monitoring_960520.article

May 20, 1996 article from Multichannel News. Implications: Will the settop box of the much-hyped "National Information Infrastructure" be a big-brother tool for marketing-motivated surveillance? Major privacy concerns are raised, and this is *already happening now*.

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