Privacy and the Internet

• EFF "Privacy, Security, Crypto, & Surveillance" ArchiveNT
  from the(http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/) Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) established by Mitchell D. Kapor, founder of Lotus Development Corporation and ON Technology and others is a highly visible nonprofit organization working to "protect privacy, free expression and democracy online" includes links to onsite and offsite documents related to online privacy. You may also enter "privacy" or other keywords in their site search engine to find related EFF pages.
• EPIC Online Guide to Privacy Resources (http://www.epic.org/privacy/privacy_resources_faq.html)from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy issues, contains organizations, printed publications, US-based net sites, international net sites, privacy tools, mailing lists and newsgroups, and upcoming conferences and events.
• Findlaw.com: Cyberspace Law: Privacy (http://profs.lp.findlaw.com/privacy/index.htmll) provides listings for cases, statutes, law review articles, other articles, and other materials available on the World Wide Web (WWW) and in print-based sources.
• Kidz Privacy-Resources (http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/resources.htm) from the Federal Trade Commission offers information (including laws such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)) on protecting children as they go online.
• Privacy International
  (http://www.privacy.org/pi/) formed in 1990 as an independent, non-government organization with the intent to be a "watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations" and funded by a range of Foundations, academic establishments and non-government organizations including The Stern Foundation (Washington DC), The German Marshall Fund (Washington DC), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR, Washington DC) and the University of New South Wales (Sydney) features international online privacy news.
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC) Internet Privacy Resources
  (http://www.privacyrights.org/netprivacy.htm) a project of the Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN), established with funding from the California Public Utilities Commission is a San Diego-based nonprofit membership organization which advocates for consumers' interests offers consumers an opportunity to learn how to protect personal privacy online.

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