Privacy, Security, and Access Workgroup

1. Europe's Privacy Laws May Become Global Standard

By Patrick Thibodeau March 12, 2001
Congress examines impact of foreign regulations on companies in the U.S.

2. FTC seeks input on new data privacy guidelines

By Maria Trombly December 19, 2000
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a request for public comments about a proposed set of data privacy guidelines that would affect companies looking to share share credit records and other consumer information with affiliated businesses.

3. Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council

This council was created by the General Assembly as an effort to open up state and local government in Virginia. The council issues advisory opinions and hopes to quickly reslove disputes, clarify the law and educate people about their rights when it comes to public records.

4. Federal Computer Incident Response Team (FedCIRC)

Sponsored by the Federal CIO Council, FedCIRC provides a centralized means of coordinating responses from computer incident response, security, and law enforcement organizations.

5. E-Commerce & the Internet

Sound advice from the Federal Trade Commission on how to keep your Internet transactions safe, secure, and private.

6. The Feds Should Act To Ensure Our Privacy Online

By Rod Dixon April 05, 1999
Software industry advocates have joined several public-interest organizations in framing the debate over computer privacy as a matter involving a conflict between competing convictions on the use of encryption technology. But the benefits of encryption are actually quite limited.

7. The Center for Democracy and Technology home page

The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.

8. White House Fact Sheet on Computer Security, Critical Infrastructure

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /U.S. Newswire
President Clinton will announce new initiatives to defend the nation's computer systems and critical infrastructure from cyber-terrorism. The most critical sectors of our economy - power-generation, telecommunications, banking, transportation and emergency services - are potentially vulnerable to disruptions from computer attack.

9. e-Citizen

e-Citizen is best described by the action it enables: Keeping the self service window of local government and the ears of public officials open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Every form, comment, request for service or complaint filed via the Internet was one less task - phone call, data entry or routing performed by an administrative government worker.

10. Electronic Delivery of Government Programs

The Federal Electronic Commerce Program, "coordinates, monitors, and reports on the development of Electronic Commerce within the Federal Government." The mission, stated another way, is to develop a policy framework to support EC, help government agencies find and use the best EC tools, and spread the most promising ideas across government.

11. The Internet Engineering Task Force

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.). Much of the work is handled via mailing lists. The IETF holds meetings three times per year.

12. The Internet Mail Consortium

The Internet Mail Consortium is the only international organization focused on cooperatively managing and promoting the rapidly-expanding world of electronic mail on the Internet. The goals of the IMC include greatly expanding the role of mail on the Internet into areas such as commerce and entertainment, advancing new Internet mail technologies, and making it easier for all Internet users, particularly novices, to get the most out of this growing communications medium.

13. http://www.ilpf.org/

Founded in 1995, the Internet Law & Policy Forum (ILPF), is a global organization of Internet-centric companies with a common interest in fostering the growth of Internet electronic commerce and communications.

14. Chief Information Officers Council

Security, Privacy and Critical Infrastructure documents presented by the CIO Council.