Privacy on the Web: useful links

David Kotz

• My (unpublished) paper on the subject, Technological Implications for Privacy on the Web (HTML, PDF, and the slides (ppt, pdf) I used for a talk on the subject.

• The New York Times stories on the subject. One article is a good overview.

• Junkbusters:
  • Privacy Headlines
  • How Web Servers' Cookies Threaten Your Privacy
  • Submission to the FTC

• Cookies, specifically:
  • Cookie Central, including an excellent FAQ and many other cookie resources
  • Netscape's original Cookie specification (old)
  • The EPIC Cookies Page
  • CIAC bulletin on Cookies
  • Dark side of cookies, and a new proposal, RFC 2109

• Report from the Center for Public Integrity, Nothing Sacred: The Politics of Privacy

• Report of Federal Trade Commission about Online Privacy

• Report of the OMB on privacy of federal web sites
  • OMB report
  • News story on OMB report

• Online Privacy Alliance, an industry group trying to resist regulation and proclaim self-enforcement

• P3P Project, attempting a technological solution

• Digital Future Coalition
• Dartmouth College Computer and Network Policy, although they do not specifically address web privacy