Privacy Law

Articles about Privacy and Security Issues

• eCrime, Law & You (ZDNet)
• Privacy, Confidentiality, Security, and Control Issues Relating to the Wide-Spread Use of the Information Highway (Forcht)
• Intelligence-Based Threat Assessments for Information Networks and Infrastructures (White Paper)
• Personal Information Goes Public When it comes to the dissemination of personal information, the key question that has been at the focus of controversial debates is: “How much is too much?” While the commercial sellers of such information provide justifications for public availability of private information, the public outcry is forcing them to curb their laissez faire operations and attracting the attention of the regulators.
• Digital Hit Men (Forbes ASAP) With the current security loopholes in all kinds of electronic networks (Telephone, Cellular, Internet, Intranets), is anyone secure at all? Skilled hackers hired by competitors can monitor a firm’s financial documents on the “PC”; listen in on multi-million dollar deals; steal customers right off the Web pages; manipulate a firm’s stock price; or ‘toast’ the company’s computer networks with one electromagnetic pulse fired from a $300 ray-gun.
• Bringing Cyberspace to the Masses Read about the user-friendly information appliances, such as net surfing devices, of the future that may even come ‘gratis’ in cereal boxes. Also psychographic profile of the potential US customers for such an appliance — the leaders and the laggards; the arrival of the TV/PC & PC/TV hybrids; and making of the ‘transparent’ wearable computers.
• eTrust: Coalition to Protect Privacy & Promote Security Online
• Communications Decency Act (CDA) CDA Reports and Resources
• OECD Personal Privacy and Trans-Border Data Flow Guidelines
• OTA Report on Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments
• Make It a Policy To Protect Yourself
• Anonymizer Wary of leaving trail of electronic footprints in your sojourns in the cyberspace. Try the anonymizer for surfing the web without leaving any traces of personal information.
• GAO Computer Security Report
• International Working Group on Data Protection and Privacy on the Internet: Discussion Forum
• OECD Computer Security Guidelines
• An Introduction to Firewalls
• Digital Liberties: Free Speech And Privacy Under Attack In Cyberspace Digital Telephony Bill, Clipper chip & Communications Decency Act
• ScamBusters Internet resource that reports on the online scams, generates alerts and information reports about online scammers and how individuals can protect themselves against them.
• Consumer.Net: Consumer Information Organization