Re: [ga] Re: "They're Coming To Take Me Away. Ha Ha."

[Joanna Lane <jo-uk@rcn.com>]

Hello Danny,
on 6/14/01 6:23 PM, Danny Younger at webmaster@babybows.com wrote:

> Whatever this survey may lack in "design", one has to admit there has been a
> major effort made at outreach,

That depends on what you mean by outreach. Whatever languages the survey is
translated into, it will still be in ICANNESE, reaching only internal parts
of the DNSO. If that's all it sets out to do, fine, but where's the outreach
to the public? Where's the explanations of the issues ? Where's the
reference to international privacy laws? Where's the evidence of
geographical diversity in those participating in the survey?

Also, it amazes me that those raised in an educational system based on
multiple choice exam papers still don't quite fully appreciate the
limitations it imposes. For example, I have a personal/family domain, I
sponsor a non-profit domain, I have a commercial business domain, I have a
ccTLD, I have a gTLD, I have a .org, each with different priorities. Do I
fill in the survey multiple times with different hats on?

On the GA-SYS list, the point has been raised that the WHOIS Committee has
no plans to contact consumer organizations that would have something of
value to say on the issues (and not necessarily fitting into those tick
boxes). 

Danny, as you are on the Whois Committee, perhaps you could confirm that
efforts will be made to contact some of these. Here's a short list from the
EPIC Online Guide to Privacy Resources:-

http://www.epic.org/privacy/privacy_resources_faq.html

Contents:
[1] Organizations
[2] Printed Publications
[3] US Privacy Sites
[4] International Privacy Sites
[6] Mailing Lists and Electronic Newsgroups

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[1] Privacy Organizations

Electronic Privacy Information Center. EPIC was established in 1994 to focus
public attention on emerging privacy issues relating to the National
Information Infrastructure, such as the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony
proposal, medical records privacy and the sale of consumer data. EPIC
conducts litigation, sponsors conferences, produces reports, publishes the
EPIC Alert and leads campaigns on privacy issues. For more information
email: info@epic.org, or contact EPIC, 1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite
200, Washington, DC 20009. Tel: (202) 483-1140. Executive Director: Marc
Rotenberg. 

American Civil Liberties Union. National civil liberties organization.
Originally founded in 1920, the ACLU conducts extensive litigation on
Constitutional issues including privacy, and free speech. The ACLU
Washington office lobbies Congress for civil liberties and civil rights
issues. Contact: info@aclu.org. 125 Broad Street, NY, NY 10004-2400.
Executive Director: Norman Siegel.

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering. CASPIAN is a
national web-based organization opposing the current trends of supermarkets
to require customer information in order to receive discounts. Email
kma@nocards.org. Founder: Katherine Albrecht.

Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. CAUCE is an all volunteer,
entirely web-based organization, created by Netizens to advocate for a
legislative solution to the problem of UCE (spam). CAUCE began as a
discussion group called SPAM-LAW, formed of members who felt that
legislation was necessary to stop spam from choking the life out of the
Internet. In 1997 CAUCE proposed an amendment to the Federal statute which
outlaws junk "faxes" (47 USC 227) to also prohibit junk e-mail, and since
then has remained a pre-eminent voice in the anti-spam community. Email:
comments@cauce.org. President: Edward Cherlin.

Center for Digital Democracy. A non-profit public interest group dedicated
to ensuring open access to Internet architectures.

Center for Media Education. A national non-profit organization dedicated to
improving the quality of electronic media, especially on the behalf of
children and families. Provides guides, reports and other information on
children's and consumer privacy. Contact: cme@cme.org. 2120 L Street, NW
Suite 518, Washington, DC 20037. Tel: (202) 331-7833. Fax: (202) 331-7841.
President: Kathryn M. Montgomery.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. A national membership
organization of people concerned about the impact of technology on society.
CPSR sponsors an annual conference, maintains numerous mailing lists on
computer-related issues, a large internet site of information and publishes
a quarterly newsletter. It has 24 local chapters across the US and several
international affiliates. CPSR sponsors working groups on civil liberties,
working in the computer industry and others. Contact: cpsr-info@cpsr.org. PO
Box 717, Palo Alto, CA 94302. Tel: (650) 322-3778. Fax: (650) 322-4748.

Consumer Project on Technology. The CPT was created by Ralph Nader in 1995
to focus on a variety of issues, including telecommunications regulation,
pricing of ISDN services; fair use under the copyright law; issues relating
to the pricing, ownership and development of pharmaceutical drugs; impact of
technology on personal privacy; and several other issues. The CPT is
currently focusing on intellectual property rights, health care, electronic
commerce ad competition policy. Contact: Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036,
Tel: (202) 387-8030. Fax: (202) 234-5176. Director: James Love.

Cypherpunks. Informal group that develops technological solutions to protect
privacy. the Cypherpunks write cryptography and other programs, set up
anonymous remailers and discuss political and technical issues. Meetings are
also regularly held in California and other states. Email:
cyperpunks-ftp@csua.berkely.edu.

EF-Texas. Texas-based, electronic civil liberties organization founded in
1990. Purpose is to engage in and support educational activities that
promote a clearer understanding of the social, legal, and technical issues
surrounding online telecommunications. Contact: directors@eftexas.org. PO
Box 328, Bastrop, TX 78602. President: Gene Crick.

Electronic Frontier Foundation. Organization formed in 1990 to maintain and
enhance intellectual freedom, privacy, and other values of civil liberties
and democracy in networked communications. Publishes newsletters, Internet
Guidebooks and other documents, provides mailing lists and other online
forums, and hosts a large electronic document archive. Contact:
info@eff.org. 454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1914. Tel: (415)
436-9333. Fax: (415) 436-9993. Executive Director: Sheryl Steele.

Global Internet Liberty Campaign. International coalition of 40 privacy,
free speech and human rights groups dedicated to fighting international
threats to privacy and free speech on the Internet. Email: gilc@gilc.org.

Privacy Coalition. A nonpartisan coalition of consumer, civil liberties,
educational, family, library, labor, and technology organizations in support
of legislation that effectively protects personal privacy. Contact:
coalition@privacy.org.

Privacy International. An international human rights group based in London,
England with offices in Washington, DC and Sydney, Australia. PI has members
in over 40 countries and has led campaigns against national id cards, video
surveillance and other privacy violations in numerous countries including
Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the Philippines. PI sponsors
yearly international conferences on privacy issues. Contact: pi@privacy.org.
Privacy International , 1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200, Washington,
DC 20009. Director General: Simon Davies.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. A California-based organization formed in
1992. The Clearinghouse has produced many fact sheets and an annual report,
and maintains a toll free hotline to provide advice to consumers about their
rights. Email: prc@privacyrights.org. 1717 Kettner Avenue Suite 105, San
Diego, CA 92101. Tel: 619-298-3396. Fax: 619-298-5681. Director: Beth
Givens.

US Privacy Council. A coalition of US privacy groups and individuals founded
in 1991 to deal with privacy issues in the US. USPC works in Washington
monitoring legislation and the activities of government agencies. USPC works
closely with other groups on privacy issues including National ID cards,
reforming credit reporting, Caller ID and international issues. Email:
pritimes@nicom.com . Tel: 202 829-3660. Chair: Evan Hendricks.

US Public Interest Group (PIRG). The State Public Interest Research Groups
(PIRGs). Non-profit, non-partisan consumer and environmental watchdog
groups. Advocates for better consumer privacy laws, preventing identity
theft and correcting credit reports. Fact sheets and reports available on
web. For general information, email: pirg@pirg.org. Tel:1-800-838-6554.To
contact DC Office (U.S. PIRG) email: uspirg@pirg.org. 218 D Street SE,
Washington, DC 20003. Tel: (202) 546-9707. Fax: (202) 546-2461. Executive
Director: Gene Karpinsk.

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[2] Printed Publications

US-Based Newsletters

2600 Magazine. Inside technical information on telephone and computer
network operations. Published quarterly. Contact: 2600@well.com. P.O. Box
752, Middle Island, NY 11953. Tel: (631) 751-2600. Fax: (631) 474-2677.
Cost:$18/year. 

Access Reports. A biweekly newsletter covering the Freedom of Information
Act, other federal open government statutes, and information policy issues
on both the legislative and administrative level. It also covers case law
development on open government issues in the states. Current trends and
issues in privacy are also covered. Editor: Harry Hammitt. Contact:
hhammitt@accessreports.com. 1624 Dogwood lane, Lynchburg, VA, 24503. Tel
(804) 384-5334. Fax (804) 384-8272. Cost: $350/year.

Full Disclosure. A monthly newspaper on surveillance and civil liberties
issues. Editor: Glen Roberts. PO Box 1533, Oil City, PA 16301. Cost:
$29.95/year.

Gray Areas. Covers subject matter which is illegal, immoral and/or
controversial. Covers all sorts of privacy issues ranging from urine tests
to computer crimes to the rights of prisoners. Editor: Netta Gilboa.
Address: Gray Areas, Inc. P.O. Box 808, Broomall, PA 19008-0808. Quarterly.
Cost: $8.00/sample $12.00 foreign 4-issue subscriptions are $23 bulk/$32
first class mail/$45 foreign.

Privacy and American Business. Bimonthly publication giving an industry
perspective on privacy. Editor: Robert Belair. Contact: pab@idt.net or
ctrslr@aol.com. Two University Plaza, Suite 414, Hackensack, NJ 07601. Tel:
(201) 996-1154. Fax: (201) 996-1883. Cost: $395/year.

Privacy Journal. A monthly journal on privacy, mainly in the U.S., now in
its 24th year of publication. Publisher: Robert Ellis Smith. Contact:
privacyjournal@prodigy.net. P.O. Box 28577, Providence, RI 02908. (401)
274-7861 (tel) (401) 274-4747 (fax). Cost: $225/year.

Privacy Law Adviser. Abi-weekly Pike & Fisher publication designed to
provide concise, objective and current information on the full range of
today's consumer and employee privacy issues. Contact: pike@pf.com. 1010
Wayne Avenue, Suite 1400, Silver Spring, MD 20910-5600.
Phone:1-800-255-8131.

Privacy Times. Biweekly newsletter on information law. Each issue covers
developments related to privacy and information access, including summaries
of court decisions on the Freedom of Information Act and other relevant
statutes. Editor: Evan Hendricks. Contact: evan@privacytimes.com. P.O. Box
21501, Washington, DC 20009. Tel: (301) 229-7002. Fax: (301) 229-8011. Cost:
$250/Year.

International Newsletters

Computer Law and Security Report. UK-based report that focuses on world-wide
developments in security granted by computer and technology laws. Editor:
Stephen Saxby. Contact: compseconline@elsevier.co.uk.. Fax: 44-0-1865-843971
Cost: $822/year. 

Privacy Laws and Business. UK-based newsletter that focuses on international
privacy and data protection from a business perspective. Editor: Stewart
Dresner. Contact: Raeburn House Fifth Floor, 100 Northholt Road, Harrow,
Middlesex HA2 0BX, United Kindgom. Tel: 44-20-8423-1300. Fax:
44-20-8423-4536. Info@privacylaws.co.uk. Cost: $US 464/year.

Privacy Law and Policy Reporter. A well written, law-oriented overview of
privacy developments in NZ, Australia and South Pacific. 10 issues/year.
Editor: Graham Greenleaf. Contact: Level 11, Carlton Centre, 55-63 Elizabeth
Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia. 61-2-221-6199 (tel). Cost: $AZ 345

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[3] U.S. Privacy Sites

ACLU Freedom Network. Reports, testimony and other materials on privacy,
free speech and other civil liberties issues. America Online Keyword: ACLU

The Antitelemarketers Source. Extensive information and help on fighting
telemarketing.

CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering.

The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. Ad hoc coalition of
Internet users, network technology professionals, and Internet Service
administrators opposing junk email.

CPSR Internet Library. Maintains the online archives for CPSR, EPIC Privacy
International and other groups.

Cypherpunks. Archives on cryptography and other privacy technologies.

Echelon Watch. Information on the threat to privacy and other civil
liberties posed by the extensive international resources of ECHELON.

Electronic Frontier Foundation Archives. Archives on privacy, free speech,
underground newsletters.

Electronic Privacy Information Center. Includes back issues of EPIC Alert,
privacy resources, legislation, and articles.

Encryption Policy Resource Page. Materials and news on current debates in US
encryption debate.

Federal Trade Commission. Information on credit reports, kids, and consumer
privacy.

Fight Spam on the Internet! Campaign to fight unsolicited email.

Junkbusters. Materials on fighting junk mail, spam, telemarketing calls and
other privacy invasive marketing. Also tools to protect privacy.

Privacy.net. Extensive archives on consumer privacy and federal and state
levels.

Privacy.org. Daily news, information, and initiatives on privacy.

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Email: prc@privacyrights.org.

Private Citizen. Dedicated to junking junk mail, spam and telemarketers.

Stopcarnivore.org. Information on the threat to privacy and other civil
liberties posed by the extensive resources of Carnivore, the FBI's wire
tapping tool.

Tech Law Journal. Decisions, legislation, news, and other materials on
privacy, encryption, censorship, copyright and other online legal issues.

US PIRG's Consumer Credit & Privacy Page. Reports, testimony, fact sheets
and advice on credit reports, identity theft and privacy.

Yahoo's Privacy Resources. Link to Yahoo Web resources page on privacy.

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[4] International Privacy Sites

Arge Daten. Web Site on Austrian Privacy. Mostly in German.

Australia Office of the Privacy Commissioner

New South Wales Privacy Committee

Privacy in Belgium - A Resource Guide

Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Materials on Canadian privacy.
Includes text of law, reports. In English and French.

British Columbia, Canada Information and Privacy Commissioner. Official web
page of the commissioner. Includes the text of the BC act and decision.

Ontario, Canada Information and Privacy Commissioner. Text of law, reports,
guides, orders and investigations.

Commission for Liberties and Informatics. Web pages on privacy in Spain.
Spanish version.

Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK). UK-based civil liberties group

Data Surveillance and Information Privacy Web Page. Extensive materials on
privacy of transactional records and data matching.

Electronic Frontiers Australia. Australian cyber-rights group. Materials on
free speech, privacy, and encryption.

Electronic Frontiers Canada. Materials on Privacy and Civil Liberties in
Canada.

Foundation for Information Policy Research. An independent body that studies
the interaction between information technology and society in UK and Europe.

Finland Privacy Commission. Mostly in Finnish.

German Privacy Information from Humbalt University. Extensive collection of
German data protection information. All in German.

Global Internet Liberty Campaign. Coalition of human rights, privacy,
anti-censorship and cyberliberties groups.

Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner.

Parliamentary Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
(Hungary). Mostly in Hungarian.

Italian Privacy Site. New site on recently enacted Italian Data protection
law. Mostly in Italian.

Netherlands Privacy Page. Materials on Privacy in the Netherlands and
internationally. In Dutch and English.

New Zealand Office of Privacy Commissioner. Guides and fact sheets on wide
range of privacy issues including the NZ Privacy Act, case notes, and
medical records.

The Norwegian Data Inspectorate (Datatilsynet). Web page of Norway Privacy
Commissioner. English available.

The Policing & Surveillance WWW-page. Information on technologies of
surveillance and control. In German.

Privacy International. Extensive materials on international privacy and
human rights. Includes fact sheets on current issues such as national id
cards, CCTV and others. Detailed country pages.

Statewatch.. UK-based civil liberties group. Extensive database (15+ years)
of materials on civil liberties in the UK and Europe.

Swiss Data Protection Agency WWW page. In German, French and Italian.

UK Data Protection Registrar. Overview of UK Data Protection Act.

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[6] Mailing Lists and Electronic Newsgroups

Moderated Newsletters and Digests:

ACLU Cyber-Liberties Update. Biweekly newsletter. To subscribe to the ACLU
Cyber-Liberties Update, send a message to majordomo@aclu.org with "subscribe
Cyber-Liberties" in the body of the message.

BNA's Internet Law Reporter. Free daily e-mail summary of developments in
Internet law with links to full text articles.

CPSR Announce. Moderated mailing list for CPSR. Newsgroup:
comp.org.cpsr.announce. Includes Telecom Report, and other CPSR newsletters
and releases. Also available as mailing list. Mail to listserv@cpsr.org. 1st
line: subscribe cpsr-announce.

CPSR-Global. CPSR sponsored mailing list on Global information
infrastructure issues. To subscribe, email listserv@cpsr.org with the 1st
line: subscribe cpsr-global. Moderator: Marsha Woodbury.

Computer Privacy Digest. Moderated digest on privacy. Newsgroup:
comp.society.privacy. To subscribe, email: comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu, 1st
line "subscribe". Back issues gopher: gopher.cs.uwm.edu, ftp:
ftp.cs.uwm.edu/pub/comp-privacy/. Moderator: Len Levine.

Computer Underground Digest. Weekly moderated digest on computer
underground, privacy, free speech issues. Newsgroup: comp.society.cu-digest.
Email: cu-digest-request@weber.ucsd.edu, Subject: SUBSCRIBE CU-DIGEST. Back
issues at http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest. Moderator: Jim Thomas.

EPIC Alert. Biweekly electronic newsletter of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center. Mail to epic-news@epic.org. Subject: subscribe.

Epic Digest. Privacy.org's weekly newsletter of privacy news, information,
and action. Mail to epic-digest@lists.epic.org. Subject: subscribe.

Gigalaw. Offers two newsletters. GigaLaw.com Weekly Update provides weekly,
in-depth articles on basic and cutting-edge issues in the law. GigaLaw.com
Daily News provides daily reports on the most important Internet and
technology law news from around the web.

Netizen: Le Bulletin Lambada. French newsletter on online privacy and free
speech issues. Available in French and English.

The Network Observer. [Archives] On-line newsletter about networks and
democracy. Email: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu. with the Subject: subscribe
Jane Doe.

Privacy Forum. Moderated digest on privacy partially sponsored by ACM. To
subscribe, email: privacy-request@vortex.com. Back issues at ftp.vortex.com
/privacy or http://www.vortex.com/. Moderator: Lauren Weinstein.

Risks Digest. Moderated digest on risks to the public using computers and
related systems. Newsgroup: comp.risks. Also available as mailing list from
email: risks-request@csl.sri.com 1st line: SUBSCRIBE. Back issues at
unix.sri.com /risks/ . Moderator: Peter Neumann.

VTW Announce. Moderated mailing list of Voters Telecomm Watch. Email
listproc@panix.com, 1st line of the message: SUBSCRIBE VTW-ANNOUNCE your
name.

Unmoderated Newsgroups and Mailing Lists:

Alt.privacy. Discussion on privacy. High traffic, low content.

Alt.privacy clipper. Discussion of the Clipper chip and encryption policy.

Comp.org.cpsr.talk. Discussion of issues related to the Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility. Topics include privacy, the NII,
telecommunications reform and social implications of technology.

Comp.org.eff.talk. Discussion of privacy, free speech, copyright and other
issues related to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Cypherpunks Mailing list. Discussion of cryptography and technical
protections of privacy. Email: majordomo@toad.com, to subscribe to
cypherpunks. Warning: High Traffic (100+ messages/day).

sci.crypt. Technical discussion of encryption.

talk.politics.crypto. Discussion of the Clipper chip and encryption policy.

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along with a significant effort to translate
> this survey into multiple languages (more soon to be forthcoming).  Please
> bear in mind that this is only step one in a much longer process that will
> fully involve the General Assembly.    Let's not go overboard with the
> criticism when it is clear that we are making forward progress.


Regards,
Joanna


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