Topics in First Amendment Rights and the Internet

• FACTNet's monthly newsletter, letters/FACTNews, covers issues relating to free thought, free speech, and privacy rights.
• U.S. House of Representatives - Internet Law Library - Privacy and Information Access
• American Library Assn. Office for Intellectual Freedom
• Yahoo has an excellent compilation on a computer privacy and security
• Roger Clarke's Dataveillance - Reflects his concern with issues in Australia but many links beyond and considerable information.
• Steve Arbuss' You Own Your Own Web is about Privacy, Free Expression and Ethics on the Internet.

Privacy & the Net

• "That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles"
  - How does a web site know you have been there before? Who's snooping? Because of Cookies! Here's what they are and what they do. From HotWired.
• "Peeking At Your PC"
  - New York Times editorial (6Apr96) by Simson Garfinkel, author of the book "PGP: Pretty Good Privacy," on the role of cryptography and privacy and the need to relax export controls. A good layman's introduction to the issues.
• Zimmerman on Privacy
  - PGP creator Phil Zimmerman's testimony to a US Senate Committe June 26, 1996, explains the imporatnce of cryptography in privacy. Included with his response to a Clinton announcement. A must-read.
• Message Privacy and Why You Need It
  - A simple explanation of how it is done with encryption by the makers of PGP, Pretty Good Privacy.
• Books about privacy & PGP
  - A selection of books, assembled by those PGP people.

Freedom of Speech & the Net

• Silencing the Net: The Threat to Freedom of Expression On-line
  A May 1996 report from Human Rights Watch that documents attempts around the world, from China to the United States, to limit free speece and privacy on the Internet.
• The Right To Anonymous Speech
  It has become an issue on the Internet but as long ago as 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court said (Talley v. California) that people had the right to anonymous speech. This is that ruling.