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Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to keep their lives and personal affairs out of public view, or to control the flow of information about themselves. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity although it is often most highly valued by people who are publicly known. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security—one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear.
The right against unsanctioned invasion of privacy by the government, corporations or individuals is part of many countries' laws, and in some cases, constitutions or privacy laws. Almost all countries have laws which in some way limit privacy, for example taxation normally requires passing on information about earnings. In some countries individual privacy may conflict with freedom of speech laws and some laws may require public disclosure of information which would be considered private in other countries and cultures.
Privacy may be voluntarily sacrificed, normally in exchange for perceived benefits, but often with little benefit and very often with specific dangers and losses. An example of voluntary sacrifice is entering a competition; a person gives personal details (often for advertising purposes), so they have a chance of winning a prize. Another example is where information voluntarily shared is later stolen or misused such as in identity theft.
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What kinda judge prohibits u from drinking in the privacy of your own home? Biiiiiiiiiiiiiii
madeinghettousa (That Dude) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:51:18 -0000
What kinda judge prohibits u from drinking in the privacy of your own home? Biiiiiiiiiiiiiii
RT @ESPNEWS: Statement released by Chris Henry's agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of ...
omarnova (Omar Nova) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:51:14 -0000
RT @ESPNEWS: Statement released by Chris Henry's agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of ...
RT @ESPNEWS:Statement by Chris Henry agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of Chris' family"
ChadSpringer (Chad springer) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:51:13 -0000
RT @ESPNEWS:Statement by Chris Henry agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of Chris' family"
RT @ESPNEWS: Statement released by Chris Henry's agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of ...
stef26 (Stefanie Riccio) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:51:12 -0000
RT @ESPNEWS: Statement released by Chris Henry's agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of ...
RT @ESPNEWS: Statement released by Chris Henry's agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of ...
Chellelilbmore (Michelle A Smith) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:50:59 -0000
RT @ESPNEWS: Statement released by Chris Henry's agents: "We ask everyone to pray for Chris. We also ask that you respect the privacy of ...
@MoMo_Lou this is what he said: http://www.rap-up.com/2009/09/23/why-did-kid-cudi-delete-his-twitter-page/ basically wanted more privacy
uncrules2187 (Yash Shah) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:50:54 -0000
@MoMo_Lou this is what he said: http://www.rap-up.com/2009/09/23/why-did-kid-cudi-delete-his-twitter-page/ basically wanted more privacy
4th Amendment - A web magazine with dissenting opinions about a variety of topics, including privacy issues such as Carnivore and Echelon. Has links to a variety of issues.
Meta Description: [ Echelon, Carnivore, CODIS and Privacy ]
About Your Address - Under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts anyone can request your personal details from any US government agency. Information about the rules and instructions on how to get the information.
Meta Description: [ Who can find your address and how, how to hide your address, privacy issues, the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act. ]
About.com: Privacy Issues - News and resources concerning laws of privacy, including wiretapping.
Meta Description: [ Your one-stop resource on civil liberties issues. Includes a directory of other civil liberties sites on the web. ]
About.com: Carnivore - Describes the networking sniffing software and the surrounding controversy.
Meta Description: [ The Carnivore network diagnostic tool (sniffer) may be peeking at your email. Get the scoop on the FBI's latest crimefighting tool . ]
Against TCPA - Discussion of the privacy implications of Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) and Palladium.
Meta Description: [ As TCPA would take all the freedom mankind fought for, now we have to fight again to keep this freedom. ]
AntiPolygraph.org - Dedicated to exposing polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse, and seeking the abolishment of polygraph testing from the American workplace.
Meta Description: [ Non-profit, public interest website dedicated to exposing and ending polygraph waste, fraud, and abuse. ]
Australia's Privacy Commissioner's Website - Government site dealing with privacy issues. Has focus area on information technology and the Internet.
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Carnivore Electronic Surveillance and Diagnostic Tool - Official statement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the US House of Representatives regarding the use and oversight of the Carnivore Electronic Surveillance program.
CDT's Guide to Online Privacy - A guide intended to educate Internet users about online privacy and offer practical suggestions and policy recommendations.
Cryptome In - Collection of articles and links on privacy issues, especially Echelon.
CyberAtlantis.com - News site regarding privacy and freedom issues. Links to global articles.
Meta Description: [ A news site dedicated to all privacy seekers + offering multiple services catering to the paranoid/security concious including platform independent secure anonymous email. ]
EPIC Carnivore Litigation - Legal documents presented by the privacy group seeking the release of all FBI records concerning Internet monitoring.
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ePrison: Art and Politics of Surveillance. - Explores the art and politics of surveillance. The current Portland Surveillance Mapping Project aims at mapping closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance in Portland, Oregon.
EuroSOCAP - Provides information on emerging European standards for confidentiality and privacy in healthcare among vulnerable patient populations. In particular, there is a fully searchable links facility which allow cross referencing of legislation across a number of European countries.
Fundamental Rights Under Privacy in the USA - Annotated list of U.S. Supreme Court cases on privacy.
Glen Robert's Full Disclosure - Glen exposes sites that disclose private information such as names, addresses, and social security numbers.
Guardian Special Report: Privacy on the Internet - Continuing coverage of news, analysis and commentary, including the RIP Act, plus links to government sites and international information and pressure groups.
Hiding From the Man: How to Protect Your Privacy - Comprehensive guide to protecting your privacy in cyberspace and the real world.
Meta Description: [ How to protect your personal privacy and quit getting junk ]
HowStuffWorks: How Facial Recognition Systems Work - Article on FACEIT software.
Meta Description: [ Humans have always had the innate ability to recognize and distinguish faces, but computers only recently have shown the same ability. Learn how facial recognition systems work. ]
HowStuffWorks: How Wiretapping Works - Article on how wire-tapping works. Links to a variety of other privacy issues such as Carnivore.
Meta Description: [ Wiretapping allows people to listen to the phone calls of others. Learn how wiretapping works, wiretapping history and about wiretapping techniques. ]
Junkbusters - Site details a variety of ways privacy is violated or data is shared. Has links for prevention.
Meta Description: [ Junkbusters helps consumers reduce unwanted junk mail, junk email, telemarketing calls, and protect their privacy from direct marketing companies. ]
Keep your Secrets - Maintain your privacy and keep your secrets, with effective techniques of verbal deception, evasion, lying, cover-story, and misdirection. Online examples and suggestions for evaluating risks of secrecy as well as suggestions for hiding physical objects as well as hiding activities.
Meta Description: [ How to maintain your personal privacy and keep your secrets by using effective tactics of deception, evasion, lying, cover-story, and misdirection. ]
Law and Technology Essays [Dr. R. Standler] - Attorney's home page including numerous essays about law, privacy, and technology issues
Meta Description: [ attorney and physicist: essays about computer law, education law, privacy law, freedom of speech, damage by lightning or electrical surges ]
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NCAAP - Fighting to keep autopsy photos private.
No Place to Hide - No Place To Hide is a multimedia investigation into the marriage between private data collection and the US government's vastly expanded surveillance authorities in the wake of September 11.
NYC Surveillance Camera Project - New York City has been installing cameras throughout the city. Has lots of information, including camera locations.
NYTimes.com - Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp - The combined power of the Internet, search engines and archival databases can enable almost anyone to find information about almost anyone else. As a result, people are trying to reduce their electronic presence and discovering that it is not as simple as it would seem. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.]
PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law - Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to PIPEDA and other Canadian and international privacy laws
Meta Description: [ The Privacy Law Blog: Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (aka PIPEDA) and other Canadian and international laws. ]
Prime recent and proposed attacks on civil rights in the United Kingdom - Document shows a detailed list of those rights of UK citizens challenged and the consequences.
Meta Description: [ Civil liberties and the supporting democratic infrastructure of the UK have been gradually undermined over the course of the last century. Since 2001, these attacks have accelerated. This document lists these recent attacks, together with the main pieces of legislation. ]
Privacilla.org - Links to articles and opinions about a variety of privacy issues from medical records to bank statements. Articles have linked bibliographies.
Privacy and Civil Liberties - From Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - program information and links.
Privacy Avenue - This site provides links to a variety of privacy related news, software, and issues.
Meta Description: [ PrivacyAve.com, Privacy Avenue examines privacy issues and debates by providing the reader with up to date privacy news and information. ]
Privacy Digest - Covers the items directly and indirectly impacting your privacy such as cryptography, wiretaps, free speech, DNA and genetic testing, and database tracking in general. Archive goes back to 1997.
Meta Description: [ Following the news that can impact your Privacy and Civil Rights ]
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PRIVACY Forum - Forum provided by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Cable Wireless USA, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Telos Systems.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - A nonprofit consumer education and advocacy project whose purpose is to advocate for consumers' privacy rights in public policy proceedings.
Privacy South Africa - List of privacy violators in South Africa with links. Also FAQs on how to protect yourself.
Meta Description: [ Privacy considerations for South Africans, including sites that publish private or unlisted information, and how to get de-listed. ]
Privacy Spot - Tracks current news and laws related to privacy issues around the world
Privacy Times - Privacy Times (Newsletter) covers information law and policy, including Internet privacy, Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, financial, medical and communications privacy, and EU Directive.
Meta Description: [ Privacy Times is the leading newsletter covering credit, privacy & Freedom of Information Law And policy. Stay abreast of the legislation, litigation, and executive branch activities, as well as consumer news, technology trends and business developments. Subscribe today. ]
Privaterra - Provides human rights workers with security technology.
Screen for genes - A site concerned with the impact of the Human Genome Project and particularly maintaining genetic databases. Links to various related sites.
Spyware: Research, Testing, Legislation, and Suits - Original research on methods and effects of spyware, and index to recent legislation and lawsuits seeking to block spyware.
Meta Description: [ Index of original research on 'spyware' programs, their transmissions, the ads displayed, and their target sites. Specifically tracks legislative efforts and pending lawsuits. ]
State Surveillance in the Internet. - A paper on surveillance and surveillance theory on the Internet by Francisco Javier Bernal. Active link bibliography.
Meta Description: [ State Surveillance in the Internet. Big Brother Capabilities in an Online World. Theory and Schemes. An investigative work by Francisco Javier Bernal ]
The Privacy Marketing Review - Thoughts on information privacy and the relationship marketing concept.
Meta Description: [ Alexander Reppel is a Lecturer in Marketing at Royal Holloway, University of London. ]
The Privacy Page - A resource for cryptography, encryption, or electronic privacy information.
The Surveillance Society - Americans enjoy unlimited benefits from new technologies in a wired world. But those wires send information in two directions, and the access to our personal data has never been more open for abuse. Online resource for on-air features.
Meta Description: [ News from Minnesota Public Radio ]
UK Police Want Keys to Decode Private E-mail - Article from The Telegraph describes how British police want keys to decode private e-mail.
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Urban Druid - Resources and news concerning privacy and fair use issues surrounding digital technologies.
Web bugs - Article concerning Web bugs (1-pixel gifs), similar to cookies, that track Internet surfing patterns.
Meta Description: [ Nearly undetectable tracking device raises concern | A widely used, yet virtually undetectable, means of tracking Net surfers' habits is joining its better-known cousin, the cookie, as the subject of lawsuits and a privacy initiative by the government.
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Who Watches the Web? - The latest news on Carnivore, Echelon and several other government efforts to monitor and censor private communications.
Meta Description: [ Who Watches the Web? The Center for the Study of Technology and Society tracks the governments tracking the Internet. ]
Wired News: Privacy Matters - Collection of recent Wired articles on the issue.
Meta Description: [ Get in-depth politics and legal news coverage including online privacy, Internet security, government regulations, censorship and free speech from Wired.com. ]
Wired: Separating Equifax from Fiction - Simson Garfinkel writes about information conglomerate Equifax. Best known as a credit bureau, the company also has its fingers in check approvals, insurance claims, and medical records. [Wired]
Meta Description: [ They know more about you than your mother.Now they want to know more than your doctor. Doesn't exactly give you the warm fuzzies, does it? ]
World Wide Wiretapping / Eavesdropping Problem - Every week updating unique list of wiretapping and eavesdropping cases around the world, abuse of phone lines for commercial espionage, financial fraud, invasion of security and assaults on privacy.
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