Comments on: Privacy advocacy

Question: Privacy advocacy

Brian B. — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:37:00 -0800

Besides the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Online Privacy Alliance, what groups, if any, protect or lobby for the concept of privacy or anonymity in the United States, and how involved are they?

By: electric_counterpoint

electric_counterpoint — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:45:27 -0800

The ACLU does some of this — see ACLU v. NSA about the wiretapping issue.

By: electric_counterpoint

electric_counterpoint — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:49:59 -0800

Oh, and skim through the links posted in reply to this previous question of mine. My request was a little different in scope from yours, but there's a lot of overlap. See especially EPIC.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:53:17 -0800

Thanks EC.

By: null terminated

null terminated — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:55:34 -0800

EPIC

By: Rykey

Rykey — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:14:24 -0800

The American Library Association

By: null terminated

null terminated — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:18:57 -0800

Oops, I missed electric_counterpoint's answer.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:32:37 -0800

This is not direct, but when I was looking for people to get information from when I was getting uppity about having to give my social security number to people, I found the Center for Democracy and Technology not only cared a lot about the idea of privacy but they'd often go on record testifying about privacy and technological changes/implications.

The ALA cares a great deal about the privacy of library records in the US and spends a lot of time supporting people's rights to privacy in that regard, even when it's somewhat unpalatable -- like when cops show up at the library wanting to take computers that criminals may have used and the librarians say "come back with a search warrant" ALA supports that. They spend money actively lobbying and the Library Bill of Rights and the ALA Intellectual Freedom Manual are very clear on the fact that they consider privacy one of the ultimate values of librarianship.

CDT on privacy
ALA on creating a privacy policy at your library

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:28:18 -0800

The Health Privacy Project works on, well, health privacy, including medical records.

By: enfa

enfa — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:41:14 -0800

Peacefire.org was created in August 1996 to represent the interests of people under 18 in the debate over freedom of speech on the Internet
http://www.netfreedom.org/resource.asp

By: scalefree

scalefree — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:13:46 -0800

Privacy International.