Other Materials
General
US Technology Policy Committee of ACM (USACM) http://www.acm.org/usacm
National Security Agency (NSA) http://www.nsa.gov/about_nsa/faqs_internet.html
Global Internet Liberty Campaign http://www.gilc.org
Cyberlaw pages
A set of interesting cyberlaw links http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/sg_cyb.htm
Pam Samuelson's web page, including a link to her course syllabus http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/courses/fall00/cyber.html
Privacy
Electronic Privacy Information Center http://www.epic.org
http://epic.org/privacy
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) http://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy/hmprivacy.html
cyberliberties http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/hmcl.html
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse http://www.privacyrights.org
Fair Information Principles http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/fairinfo.htm
The European Union (EU) data protection http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/media/dataprot/index.htm
USG info on Safe Harbor http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/
CPSR primer on privacy http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhgo/privacy-intro/index.html
ACLU analysis of email privacy http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/priv/privpap.html
The American Management Association's 2001 Annual Survey on Workplace Monitoring &
Surveillance http://www.amanet.org/research/pdfs/ems_short2001.pdf
US Legislation
urls for US legislation, including Fair Credit Reporting Act and
Family and Educational Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/legal.html
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
of Canada http://www.privcom.gc.ca/information/02_05_d_08_e.asp
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) http://www.kidzprivacy.org/thelaw.htm
An Annenberg Public Policy Center analysis of COPPA (March, 2001) http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/jturow/PrivacyReport.pdf
A new Analysis of COPPA from the Center for Media Education (April, 2001) http://www.cme.org/children/privacy/coppa_rept.pdf
Electronic Communications Privacy Act, passed in 1986 (ECPA) http://www.usiia.org/legis/ecpa.html
Also, see the NRC CRISIS report for a discussion of legislation.
State of California Privacy Policy: go to http://www.ca.gov/state/portal/myca_homepage.jsp
and click on privacy policy at bottom of page
California Constitution statements on privacy http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_1
Court cases
Preliminary injunction in McVeigh v Cohen http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/aol/navy_decision.html
Privacy Related Tools
Privacy Tools (email/anonymizers/firewalls, encryption, cookies,
etc): http://www.epic.org/privacy/tools.html
User created privacy policy: Platform for Privacy
Preferences (P3P) Project http://www.w3.org/P3P/
CPSR faq on P3P http://www.cpsr.org/program/privacy/p3p-faq.html
A negative assessment of P3P http://www.epic.org/Reports/prettypoorprivacy.html
Cookies/Spam/User profiling http://www.junkbusters.com/
Definition of cookies and how to disable http://www.junkbusters.com/cookies.html
Medical
Health Privacy Project (Georgetown Univ)http://www.healthprivacy.org/
ACLU Congressional testimony on proposed privacy regulations
(2/17/00) http://www.aclu.org/congress/l021700a.html
ACLU Congressional testimony on potential discrimination using
DNA (3/23/00) http://www.aclu.org/congress/l032300a.html
A faq on medical privacy in the US http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs8-med.htm
The new privacy regs (HIPAA) http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/
Anonymity
http://www.epic.org/privacy/anon/anonymity.html
A company producing software for anonymity http://www.zeroknowledge.com/
Using Computers to exploit personal information
ACLU Amici Curiae before the Supreme Court arguing of threat to
women of release of drivers' records information http://www.aclu.org/court/reno1.html
Aggregation of public information http://www.princeton.edu/~helen/privacy.pdf
CPRS faq on social security numbers http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ssn.faq.html
Computer/software/Internet security
Peter Neumann's Risks (the authoritative collection of
information on computer and system risks) http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/#3
Need for Information Security Education and Research http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/homes/spaf/misc/edu.html
President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
(PCCIP) http://www.ciao.gov/PCCIP/pccip_documents.htm
PCCIP Report Summary http://www.ciao.gov/PCCIP/summary.html
An Industrial critique of the PCCIP Report http://www.itaa.org/es/cne/cippccip.htm
The Clinton Administration's Policy on Critical Infrastructure
Protection: Presidential Decision Directive 63, May 22, 1998 http://www.cybercrime.gov/white_pr.htm
Electronic surveillance
Echelon
EchelonWatch http://www.aclu.org/echelonwatch/resources.html
Report on Intelligence Capabilities prepared for the European
Parliament
http://www.cyber-rights.org/interception/stoa/interception_capabilities_2000.htm
ZDNet articles on Echelon http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/specials/2000/06/echelon/
Carnivore
EPIC http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/foia_documents.html
http://www.epic.org/privacy/carnivore/
FBI http://www.fbi.gov/programs/carnivore/carnivore.htm
Robert Corn-Revere's Congressional testimony revealing the
existence of Carnivore (4/6/00) http://www.house.gov/judiciary/corn0406.htm
Review of Carnivore for the Department of Justice http://www.usdoj.gov:80/jmd/publications/carnivore_draft_1.pdf
Critic of DoJ sponsored Carnivore review http://www.crypto.com/papers/carnivore_report_comments.html
A set of Carnivore links http://www.carnivorewatch.org/
Wiretapping
EPIC http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/
ACLU http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/wiretap_brother.html
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/calea/calea_law.html
Administrative Office of the US Courts Wiretap Reports: 1999 http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/stats/1999-report/default.html
1998 http://www.epic.org/privacy/wiretap/stats/1998-report/default.html
2000 report http://www.uscourts.gov/wiretap00/2000wttxt.pdf
Ca. Wiretap laws overview http://pd.co.la.ca.us/overv.htm
Workplace surveillance
A survey of workplace surveillance July, 2001 http://www.privacyfoundation.org/resources/14million.asp
European Legislation, treaties, and proposals relating to Internet security and surveillance
Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance in Europe http://www.statewatch.org/soseurope.htm
European Convention on Cybercrime http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/projets/cybercrime22.htm
Letter in opposition to the Cybercrime Convention http://www.gilc.org/privacy/coe-letter-1000.html
Impact on US business of Cybercrime Convention (belated thanks to Eric Albert) http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZD3WRL5LC
Critical letter from the EU’s Advisory Body on Data Protection and Privacy http://www.epic.org/security/cybercrime/data_wp_3_01.pdf
Web related issues
Internet Governance
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) http://www.icann.org
People for Internet Responsibly http://www.pfir.org/
ICANNWatch http://www.icannwatch.org/
Internet Democracy Project http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/
Simons article on trademarking the net http://barbara.simons.org/ICANN_election/trademarking.pdf
Search Engines
Politics of search engines http://www.princeton.edu/~helen/enginepolitics.htm
Some info on search engines http://www.webreference.com/content/search/
Paid placements http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/paid.html
Filtering
Children's Internet Protection Act http://www.ifea.net/cipa.html
American Library Association anti-CIPA http://www.ala.org/cipa/
Self labeling using Platform for Internet Content Selection http://www.w3.org/PICS/
Resnick faq on PICS and censorship http://www.w3.org/PICS/PICS-FAQ-980126.html
CPSR faq on filters http://www.cpsr.org/filters/faq.html
EPIC report on filters http://www2.epic.org/reports/filter-report.html
An anti-filter website http://www.peacefire.org/
An excellent overview by Weinberg http://www.law.wayne.edu/weinberg/rating.htm#fnB10
Hate Speech
The French Court decision in the case involving Yahoo and Nazi memorabilia (in English) http://www.cdt.org/speech/international/001120yahoofrance.pdf
Draft of the ACLU et al brief in support of Yahoo (I'll post the signed version when I
receive it) http://barbara.simons.org/Yahoo_Speech_Amicus03291.DOC
E-voting
An excellent collection of articles and papers by Rebecca Mercuri
and others http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri/notable/evote.html
NSF sponsored report http://www.netvoting.org/Resources/InternetVotingReport.pdf
People for Internet Responsibility on e-voting http://www.pfir.org/statements/electoral
CPSR newsletter on e-voting with excellent list of urls http://www.cpsr.org/publications/newsletters/issues/2001/Winter/index.html
Comparison to radio
A book on the history of radio (available in paperback): Douglas, "Inventing American
Broadcasting 1899-1922", the Johns Hopkins University Press
A good overview article (the first page has a figure that can't be displayed online
because of copyright constraints) http://www.princeton.edu/%7Eeszter/hargittai-radio.pdf
Crypto
Report on the risks of key recovery/escrow http://www.cdt.org/crypto/risks98/
ACM Report on crypto policy (1994) http://info.acm.org/reports/acm_crypto_study.html
Amicus Brief (EPIC, ACLU, Internet Society, USACM) on behalf of
Karn's crypto appeal of crypto controls http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/crypto_brief.html
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision in the
Bernstein case challenging crypto export controls http://www.epic.org/crypto/export_controls/bernstein_decision_9_cir.html
Paper on Block Structured Crypto Systems http://www.ams.org/notices/200003/fea-landau.pdf
Paper on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) competition http://www.ams.org/notices/200004/fea-landau.pdf
Note on AES selection (second page of article) http://www.ams.org/notices/200101/fyi.pdf
Intellectual Property Issues - General
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)http://www.wipo.org/
WIPO copyright treaty http://www.wipo.org/treaties/ip/copyright/copyright.html
Samuelson on intellectual property in the digital age http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/digdilsyn.pdf
USACM on copyright http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/#copyright
Lessig essays on copyright http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16071,00.html
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,18964,00.html
Copyleft (free software movement) http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
Opensource software http://www.opensource.org/
Technical approaches (Digital Rights Management)
A critical essay http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/technical-notes/SRC-2001-002.html
A company producing digital rights management technology http://www.intertrust.com/
IP Issues - Legislation
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
The DMCA section 1201 (anti-circumvention) http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html
Also, preceded by analysis in NRC report (2000) http://books.nap.edu/html/digital_dilemma/appG.html#REF10
The entire DMCA, including section 1202 on integrity of copyright
management information http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/dmca/pl105-304.txt
Computer security implications of the DMCA http://www.cerias.purdue.du/homes/spaf/WIPO/
Anti circumvention provision of the DMCA http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers/fincrypt2.doc
The Digital Future Coalition http://www.dfc.org/dfc1/Active_Issues/graphic/DMCA_index.html
The No Electronic Theft Act (NET)
HR 2265 (NET Act) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2265:
ACM on sentencing guidelines http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/net_comments.htm
Database legislation
An overview of databases and legislation http://www.databasedata.org/
The American Library Association http://www.ala.org/washoff/database.html
Association of Research Libraries http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/database.html
A Duke Univ. Law School article http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/DLTR/Articles/2001dltr0017.html
IP Issues - Court cases
The CDC/2600 case
The CDC/2600 case and related topics: http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property/Video/
Harvard Univ. OpenLaw/DVD web page, including injunction issued
by Judge Lewis Kaplan http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/
Amicus briefs in support of defendant Eric Corley,
a/k/a Emmanuel Goldstein and 2600 Enterprises, Inc.:
Brief for defendant http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010126_ny_lawprofs_amicus.html
17 Computer scientists http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bac.htm
ACM Law Committee http://www.acm.org/usacm/DVD-brief.html
46 law professors http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010126_ny_lawprofs_amicus.html
libraries http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010126_ny_lawprofs_amicus.html
news media http://www.thefirstamendment.org/linkingamicus.html
David Touretzky's listings of different incarnations of DeCSS,
including one in haiku http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
NY Times article on Touretzky's web page http://barbara.simons.org/Touretzky.html
Simons article on DeCSS http://barbara.simons.org/DVD.pdf
Amicus briefs in support of Plaintiffs the film
studios:
Brief for plaintiffs http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-bpa.htm
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) http://www.mpaa.org/Press/DeCSSFinalAmicusbrief.htm
DVD Copy Control Association (DVDCCA) http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010313_ny_dvdcca_amicus.html
Four law professors http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20010312_ny_law_profs_amicus_for_op.html
US government http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-2600-usa.htm
Napster http://www.napster.com/
Record Industry Assoc of America (RIAA) http://www.riaa.com/napster_legal.cfm
Gnutella http://websearch.about.com/internet/websearch/msub45.htm
The New York Times v. Tasini
An amicus brief in support of the freelance authors (and against
the NY Times) http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/tasini.html
IP Issues - Treaties
The most recent draft of the Council of Europe Draft Convention on Cybercrime can be
found at http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/EN/cadreprojets.htm
Commerce UCITA
Pro-UCITA faqs http://www.ucitaonline.com/slhpfaqs.html
Anti-UCITA web site http://www.4cite.org/
USACM on UCITA http://www.acm.org/usacm/IP/#ucita
American Library Association on UCITA http://www.ala.org/washoff/ucita/index.html
Cem Kamer's anti-UCITA web page http://www.badsoftware.com/
History
Speech & Surveillance
California's Un-American Activities Committee http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/1999/11/14/NEWS3783.dtl
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission http://www.aclu.org/news/1999/w031499a.html
Breaking stories
April 9: Dick Armey's letter against on-line privacy legislation http://freedom.gov/library/technology/memo/privacy.asp
EPIC response to Armey letter http://www.epic.org/privacy/epicrespondstoarmey.html
The European Union Ministers adopted new copyright rules with provisions similar to those
in the DMCA http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/intprop/intprop/news/copyright.htm
April 12: The Dep't of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the federal
health privacy regulation will go into effect on April 14, 2001, as scheduled. http://www.healthprivacy.org/info-url_nocat2303/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=55710
A posting to Declan McCullugh's newslist containing a rebuttal from Peter Swire, former
"Privacy Tzar" in the Clinton Administration, to a letter (also included in the
posting) from seven Senators calling for the delay of the implementation of the health
privacy regs is at http://barbara.simons.org/MedPrivacyRegsLetters.doc
April 13: A NY Times article on the announcement (belated thanks to Matthew Waddell) http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/politics/13PRIV.html?pagewanted=print
April 28: An interesting NY Times article about email and privacy: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/22/weekinreview/22PERL.html
An article about a subsidiary of amazon.com settling a privacy lawsuit (thanks to Eric
Albert) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5754965.html?tag=lh
April 29: I have added a link to the new medical privacy regs (HIPAA) above under medical privacy
April 30: Kathleen Sullivan, Dean of Stanford Law School, will present the defendants' case in Universal City Studios Inc. v. Corley before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday May 1. See http://barbara.simons.org/DVDappeal.html
May 1: FBI hacks Russian computers (Jennifer Granick, clinical director for the
Stanford Univ. Center for Internet and Society quoted)
http://barbara.simons.org/lawyers_slam_fbi_hack__1.html
May 2: The White House press release on HIPAA - note that it expresses concern about the right of parents to have access to their children's medical records http://barbara.simons.org/HIPAAPressRelease.html
May 2: Dick Armey urged the Bush administration to modify HIPAA - said gave federal officials broad access to patients' medical records http://barbara.simons.org/health_privacy.html
May 8: Judge Approves FTC Restrictions on the Use of Consumer Data http://barbara.simons.org/ConsumerDataPrivacy.html
May 8: A privacy article that discusses some material covered in class http://barbara.simons.org/PrivacyArticle.html