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EPIC Holiday Gift Guide
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Volume 13 December 19, 2006
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Published by the
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Washington, D.C.
http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_gift06.html
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With the holiday season upon us, EPIC is happy to help you find the
perfect gift for the privacy activists on your shopping list. EPIC and
members of its advisory board have published a number of excellent new
books on privacy and civil liberties in the computer age. Here, we've
listed some of our favorites. As always, take care when shopping online
to protect your personal information! Enjoy, and happy holidays from
EPIC!
Current EPIC Publications:
"Privacy & Human Rights 2005: An International Survey of Privacy Laws
and Developments"
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/phr2005/phr2005.html
This annual report by EPIC and Privacy International provides an
overview of key privacy topics and reviews the state of privacy in over
70 countries around the world. The report outlines legal protections,
new challenges, and important issues and events relating to privacy.
Privacy & Human Rights 2005 is the most comprehensive report on privacy
and data protection ever published.
Harry Hammitt, David Sobel and Tiffany Stedman, ed., "FOIA 2004:
Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws"
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/foia2004
This is the standard reference work covering all aspects of the Freedom
of Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Government in the Sunshine Act,
and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The 22nd edition fully updates
the manual that lawyers, journalists and researchers have relied on for
more than 25 years. For those who litigate open government cases (or
need to learn how to litigate them), this is an essential reference
manual.
Marc Rotenberg, ed., "The Privacy Law Sourcebook 2004: United States
Law, International Law, and Recent Developments"
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/pls2004/
The Privacy Law Sourcebook, which has been called the "Physician's Desk
Reference" of the privacy world, is the leading resource for students,
attorneys, researchers, and journalists interested in pursuing privacy
law in the United States and around the world. It includes the full
texts of major privacy laws and directives such as the Fair Credit
Reporting Act, the Privacy Act, and the OECD Privacy Guidelines, as well
as an up-to-date section on recent developments. New materials include
the APEC Privacy framework, the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act, and the
CAN-SPAM Act.
"The Public Voice WSIS Sourcebook: Perspectives on the World Summit on
the Information Society"
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/pvsourcebook
This resource promotes a dialogue on the issues, the outcomes, and the
process of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). This
reference guide provides the official UN documents, regional and
issue-oriented perspectives, and recommendations and proposals for
future action, as well as a useful list of resources and contacts for
individuals and organizations that wish to become more involved in the
WSIS process.
"Filters and Freedom 2.0: Free Speech Perspectives on Internet Content
Controls"
http://www.epic.org/bookstore/filters2.0
A collection of essays, studies, and critiques of Internet content
filtering. These papers are instrumental in explaining why filtering
threatens free expression.
Publications by members of the EPIC Advisory Board:
Phil Agre and Marc Rotenberg, ed., "Technology and Privacy: The New
Landscape"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/026201162X
"The essays in this book provide a conceptual framework for the analysis
and debate of privacy policy and for the design and development of
information systems. The international authorship represents technical,
economic, and political aspects of privacy."
Anita Allen, “Why Privacy Isn't Everything”
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0742514080
"Accountability protects public health and safety, facilitates law
enforcement, and enhances national security, but it is much more than a
bureaucratic concern for corporations, public administrators, and the
criminal justice system. In Why Privacy Isn't Everything, Anita L. Allen
provides a highly original treatment of neglected issues affecting the
intimacies of everyday life, and freshly examines how a preeminent
liberal society accommodates the competing demands of vital privacy and
vital accountability for personal matters."
James Bamford, "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National
Security Agency From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/1-0385499078-17
"James Bamford first penetrated the wall of silence surrounding the NSA
in 1982, with the much-talked-about bestseller The Puzzle Palace. In
Body of Secrets, he offers shocking new details about the inner workings
of the agency, gathered through unique access to thousands of internal
documents and interviews with current and former officials. Unveiling
extremely sensitive information for the first time, Bamford exposes the
role the NSA played in numerous Soviet bloc Cold War conflicts and
discusses its undercover involvement in the Vietnam War."
Christine Borgman, "From Gutenberg to the Global Information
Infrastructure"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0262523450
"Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a
revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or
will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing
behavior and institutions to new media? … What are the trade-offs
between tailoring information systems to user communities and
standardizing them to interconnect with systems designed for other
communities, cultures, and languages? This book takes a close look at
these and other questions of technology, behavior, and policy
surrounding the GII."
James Boyle, Keith Aoki, and Jennifer Jenkins, "Bound By Law? (Tales
from the Public Domain)"
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
"This graphic-novel-format paperback is an excellent introduction to
copyright law. The authors, all law professors, wanted to make copyright
accessible for everyone in a form other than a law-review article. The
'plot' revolves around Akiko, a filmmaker who wants to capture a day in
the life of New York City. As Akiko tries to produce her film, she
learns about copyright basics, including fair use, public domain, and
the impact of digital technology."
Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, "Privacy on the Line: The Politics of
Wiretapping and Encryption"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0262541009
"Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as a Cold War
culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us
still take our privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than
ever on telephones, computer networks, and electronic transactions of
all kinds. Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau argue that if we are to
retain the privacy that characterized face-to-face relationships in the
past, we must build the means of protecting that privacy into our
communication systems."
Harry Hammit, "Access Reports"
http://www.accessreports.com/sub.html
"For more than 25 years, Access Reports has been the news source of
choice for professionals concerned with access to government
information. Access Reports' publications keep subscribers up to date on
all freedom of information and privacy issues, tracking policy trends
while summarizing and analyzing court decisions, legislation (federal,
state, and -- in Canada -- provincial), regulations, and agency
guidance."
Jerry Kang, "Communications Law and Policy"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/1587789329
"This teachable work provides a comprehensive introduction to the
technology, economics, law, and policy of modern communications. Its
unique strength is that it is organized by analytic concepts instead of
current industry lines, which are constantly outdated by technological
convergence. The basic ideas -- power, entry, pricing, bad content, good
content, structure, and access -- equip students with a durable and yet
flexible intellectual structure that can help parse a complex and
ever-changing field."
Mary Minow and Tomas A. Lipinski, "Library's Legal Answer Book"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0838908284
"Every librarian who wants to make wise policy decisions and protect the
organization from legal challenges can now consult the library legal
team of Minow and Lipinski! Libraries are in the thick of legal issues
as new technologies add layers of complexity to everyday work in the
library. How do you know what's legal? What can you do to identify and
address issues before they turn into bona fide legal matters? Where do
you turn for help? In this comprehensive and authoritative, yet
easy-to-understand Q & A customized for librarians, you'll find expert
guidance on complex issues."
Eli M. Noam, "Interconnecting the Network of Networks"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0262140721
"Taking a broad, multidisciplinary perspective Eli Noam discusses the
importance and history of interconnection policy, as well as recent
policy reforms both within the United States and around the globe. Other
important topics he discusses include interconnection prices, the
unbundling of interconnection, and the technology of interconnection. He
concludes with an examination of social and policy issues, including the
free flow of content, universal service and privacy protection, and the
future of telecommunications."
Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an
Uncertain World"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0387026207
"In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at
not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're
encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies,
businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and
militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security
consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security -- in
terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms --
should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional,
and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national
discussion."
Robert Ellis Smith, "Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from
Plymouth Rock to the Internet"
http://www.powells.com/s?kw=robert+ellis+smith&x=0&y=0
"This new book explores the hidden niches of American history to
discover the tug between Americans' yearning for privacy and their
insatiable curiosity. The book describes Puritan monitoring in Colonial
New England, then shows how the attitudes of the founders placed the
concept of privacy in the Constitution. This panoramic view continues
with the coming of tabloid journalism in the Nineteenth Century, and the
reaction to it in the form of a new right -- the right to privacy."
Daniel J. Solove, "The Digital Person"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0814798462
"In this startling revelation of how digital dossiers are created
(usually without our knowledge), Daniel J. Solove argues that we must
rethink our understanding of what privacy is and what it means in the
digital age, and then reform the laws that define and regulate it.
Although the implications of digital dossiers may be grave, The Digital
Person helps empower Internet users by exposing to them the reality of
what happens when they input personal information into computers, and
how they can push for legal reform that simultaneously protects their
privacy and lets them enjoy the benefits of the information age."
Daniel J. Solove, Marc Rotenberg, and Paul M. Schwartz, "Privacy,
Information, Technology"
http://www.powells.com/partner/24075/biblio/0735562458
"With its authority, comprehensive approach, and lucid explanations,
this work is an ideal resource for teaching cyber law, communications,
media, law and technology, privacy law, and information law courses and
seminars. Succinct and readable, it can also supplement any course where
information privacy issues are considered."
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center is a public interest research
center in Washington, DC. It was established in 1994 to focus public
attention on emerging privacy issues such as the Clipper Chip, the
Digital Telephony proposal, national ID cards, medical record privacy,
and the collection and sale of personal information. EPIC publishes the
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