PRIVACY Forum Digest Sunday, 12 January 1997 Volume 06 : Issue 01 Moderated by Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com) Vortex Technology, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A. ===== PRIVACY FORUM ===== ------------------------------------------------------------------- The PRIVACY Forum is supported in part by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, "internetMCI" (a service of the Data Services Division of MCI Telecommunications Corporation), and Cisco Systems, Inc. - - - These organizations do not operate or control the PRIVACY Forum in any manner, and their support does not imply agreement on their part with nor responsibility for any materials posted on or related to the PRIVACY Forum. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS INDEX to PRIVACY Forum Digest; Volume 05, Issues 13 through 22 (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) *** Please include a RELEVANT "Subject:" line on all submissions! *** *** Submissions without them may be ignored! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet PRIVACY Forum is a moderated digest for the discussion and analysis of issues relating to the general topic of privacy (both personal and collective) in the "information age" of the 1990's and beyond. 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Mesplay) Blocking Cookies (gozer@oro.net) Re: Protection and Parental Empowerment Act (Dick Mills) "Child Molester Database" on the Web (Dave Brown) Discussion Forum on Privacy on the Internet (Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragter) Lexis-Nexis Drops SSN Sales Plan (Marc Rotenberg) Calif. Caller ID News (Beth Givens) Mountain Dew beeper promotion for children (Phil Agre) Looking for examples where video surveillance is damaging... (Steve Mann) DENVER POST: "Student Database Called Orwellian" (Peter Marshall) Automation of Contagion Vigilance - Draft ready (David Stodolsky) Videosurveillance on streets in Amsterdam (ReindeR Rustema) Genetic Screening and Privacy (Pierrot Peladeau) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Sunday, 18 August 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 15 Credit Card Company Now Marketing "Privacy" Program (Marc Carrel) Pagers as "commonly used drug-dealing equipment" (Jonathan Thornburg) Re: *Primary Colors* and Joe Klein (PGN, RISKS-18.26) (Joel Garreau) What constitutes appropriate monitoring of web browsers? ([Name Withheld by Request]) Looking for Internet privacy stories (Joel McNamara) Cookie blocking (Martin Owensby) DoubleClick cookies (Scott Wyant) Registering to vote (Peter Langston) Alzheimers & Privacy (David R. Cochran) CPSR Conference, Oct. 19-20, DC (Susan Evoy) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Sunday, 1 September 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 16 NCSL ALERT: Driver's Licenses and Birth Certificates (Janeane Dubuar) Re: Credit Card Company Now Marketing "Privacy" Program (V5 #15) (John R. Levine) Credit Card Protection Plans (Charles Trew) Blood and Privacy? (Rex Black) Alternatives to Social Security Numbers (Robert Ellis Smith) Re: Department of Motor Vehicle records (Johnsrude, RISKS-18.31) (Jan Vorbrueggen) SSN problem hits a Congressman (Stanton McCandlish) FC: Helsingius shuts down anon.penet.fi server in Finland (Declan McCullagh) SSN and Welfare Legislation (Monty Solomon) Re: More on CNID (Cliff Sojourner) The answer to the cookie problem?? (pt1@grcci.com) HRW letter to Singapore government; German telecom URL (Monty Solomon) Ohio requires privacy waiver and SSN in job apps (Wm Randolph Franklin) Fingerprinting by banks (Janeane Dubuar) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Tuesday, 3 September 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 17 Lexis-Nexis personal information database (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Lexis-Nexis personal information database (Larry Hunter) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Sunday, 22 September 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 18 "PRIVACY Forum Radio" and Lexis-Nexis "P-TRAK" Interview/Update Info (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Detailed Update Regarding Lexis-Nexis "P-TRAK" Database (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Monday, 14 October 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 19 "Caller-ID" Interview now available on PRIVACY Forum Radio (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) More Personal Information Databases (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Re: Blood and Privacy? (John R. Levine) FedEx monitoring of cellular phone call locations (Bernard Glassman) Unclear on the Concept -- Opinions (Peter Langston) Re: CUC; PrivacyGuard (Joseph S Fulda) Canadian proposal for tracking of non-convicts (Phil Agre) Fingerprints? (Bruce Jones) Disney World Past Guest Search (Phil Agre) White House Releases New Clipper Proposal (Marc Rotenberg) Possible information scam (Phil Agre) National ID Card Web Pages (Dave Banisar) CFP: NPS issue on Cyberspace CFP: 7th Conference on COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY (3/11-14/97) (Jim Warren) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Monday, 28 October 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 20 Postal "Change of Address" Issues on PRIVACY Forum Radio (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Web Search Service Exposes Searches to Public Viewing (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) "Holographic" Full-Body Security Scanning (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Re: Blood and Privacy? (Joe Decker) A new attack on DES (Monty Solomon) IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy - call for papers (Mary Ellen Zurko) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Sunday, 24 November 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 21 Key Escrow & Govt. Crypto Controls (Prof. Dorothy Denning) on PFR (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) PRIVACY Forum Radio Interviews via Tape, CD-ROM, etc. (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Southwestern Bell and SSNs (Rex Black) Canadian private sector legislation by the year 2000 (Colin Bennett) University plans to publish personal info (Edward Fischer) Big Internet is Watching You (Martin Minow) La Belle Province Vous Aime [re: Hydro Quebec] (Alan P. Burke) The final version of the NRC crypto report is now available! (CRYPTO) New Bihman-Shamir Fault Analysis Paper (Bruce Schneier) Community Space and Cyberspace (Susan Evoy) PRIVACY Forum Digest; Sunday, 22 December 1996; Volume 05 : Issue 22 "Hidden agendas" in web blocking software (Lauren Weinstein; PRIVACY Forum Moderator) Maiden name renewal shortcuts (Howard Goldstein) Anonymous opinions (Karin Hansson) OPPOSITION: FRC on Supreme Court News (Todd Lappin) Resolution Regarding Implementation of the CSU One Card (Phil Agre) Dog-mounted video camera (Phil Agre) CHRC bumbles into the Net (Mich Kabay) CEPIS Statement: Governmental Restrictions on Encryption Products Put Security at Risk (Kai Rannenberg) ANNOUNCEMENT: New low-noise cryptography mailing list (Perry E. Metzger) Online Personal Databases (David Kulp) ------------------------------ End of PRIVACY Forum Digest 06.01 ************************