CFP2000 - Computers Freedom & Privacy Conference 2000.

CFP has traditionally focused strongly on legal remedies as essential instruments in the fight to ensure freedom and privacy. But law is often very slow to catch up to technology, and has limited reach when considering the global scope of modern communication and information technologies.

This workshop instead explores using technology to bring about strong protections of civil liberties which are guaranteed by the technology itself---in short, to get hackers, system architects, and implementors strongly involved in CFP and its goals.

Slashdot | Your Rights Online | CFP2000 - Freedom and Privacy by Design.

New York Times - free registration required Digital Commerce: Self-Indulgence in the Internet Industry. Finally, the Internet's growing lack of credibility among consumers is becoming a cause célèbre. Just last week, two organizations -- one grass-roots, the other representing industry -- announced their intentions to bring some balance and intellectual rigor to a debate that has been almost completely lopsided toward unfettered growth at any cost.

PRIVACY Forum. The PRIVACY Forum is supported in part by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Cable & Wireless USA, Cisco Systems, Inc., and Telos Systems. 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.

PFIR: People For Internet Responsibility. With the rapid commercialization of the Internet and its World Wide Web during the 1990's, there are increasing concerns that decisions regarding these resources are being irresponsibly skewed through the influence of powerful, vested interests (in commercial, political, and other categories) whose goals are not necessarily always aligned with the concerns of individuals and the people at large. Such incompatibilities have surfaced in areas including domain name policy, spam, security, encryption, freedom of speech issues, privacy, content rating and filtering, and a vast array of other areas.