Reports and Monographs

2001

Administrative Office of the US Courts, Automation and Technology Committee. Summary of the Report of the Judicial Conference Committee on Automation and Technology. Washington DC: US Courts, August 13, 2001. Please note that this is a PDF document.
Administrative Office of the US Courts, Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management. Report on Privacy and Public Access to Electronic Case Files. Washington DC: US Courts, June 26, 2001. Please note that this is a PDF document.
Atkinson, Robert H. and Shane Ham. 2001. Online Privacy and a Free Internet. [Washington, DC]: Progressive Policy Institute, April 2001. Please note that this is a PDF document.
Attorney General of Vermont. Final Report to the Vermont Legislature on Financial Privacy. Montpelier, VT: ATG, February 14, 2001.
Behrman, Dennis and Tom Richards. A Guide to Global Privacy Legislation. Newton, MA: Meridien Research, September 27, 2001. Please note that the actual document is in PDF format.
Borking, John and Charles Raab. “Law, PETs and Other Technologies for Privacy Protection.” Journal of Information, Law and Technology, (University of Warwick), 2001 (1), February 28, 2001. This article is available in both HTML and Word formats.
Center for Digital Democracy. TV That Watches You: The Prying Eyes of Interactive Television. Washington DC: CDD, June 26, 2001. This report is a PDF document. Also of interest is the response to this report by the Association for Interactive Media.
European Commission. Commission Study:“Junk” e-mail Costs Internet Users Euro 10 Billion a Year Worldwide. Brussels: EC, February 2, 2001. The document available in English is a summary of the report, and it is a PDF document.
Federal Trade Commission. Project Mailbox IV: Report on Law Enforcement Actions and Consumer Education Initiatives October 1, 1999 - September 30, 2000. Prepared in partnership with the National Association of Attorneys General, US Postal Inspection Service and US Securities and Exchange Commission. Washington DC: FTC, January 5, 2001. This report is a PDF document.
_____. Report to Congress on The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act: The Consumer Consent Provision in Section 101(c)(1)(C)(ii) . Prepared by the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the FTC with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Department of Commerce.Washington DC: FTC, June 27, 2001. Also of interest is the Act this report discusses.
Hahn, Robert. An Assessment of the Costs of Proposed Online Privacy Legislation. Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Association for Competitive Technology. Washington DC: ACT, May 7, 2001.This is a PDF document.
Law Reform Commission [of New South Wales]. Surveillance: An Interim Report. Sydney: LRC, December 2001.
Office of Information Practices, State of Hawaii. The Report of the Medical Privacy Task Force to the State of Hawaii 2001 Legislature. Honolulu: OIP, [January 2001].
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, Committee on Consumer Policy. Cross-Border Cooperation in Combatting Cross-Border Fraud: The US/Canadian Experience. Paris: OECD, March 5, 2001. This document is available in both PDF and Word formats.
_____. First Report: Government and Private Sector Initiatives to Promote and Implement the OECD Guidelines for Consumer Protection in the Context of Electronic Commerce. Paris: OECD, March 1, 2001. This document is available in both PDF and Word formats. Also of interest are the Guidelines(a PDF document) discussed in this report.
_____. Inventory of Consumer Protection Laws, Policies and Practices Applied to Electronic Commerce. Paris: OECD, March 1, 2001. This document is available in both PDF and Word formats.
Pew Internet & American Life Project and the Health Privacy Project, Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Georgetown University. Exposed Online: Why the New Federal Health Privacy Regulation Doesn’t Offer Much Protection to Internet Users. Washington DC: Pew, November 2001. Please note that this is a PDF document.
Privacilla.org. Privacy and Federal Agencies: Government Exchange and Merger of Citizens’ Personal Information is Systematic and Routine. Washington DC: Privacilla, March 2001.
Privacy Foundation. Click, you’re hired. Or tracked...: A Report on the Privacy Practices of Monster.com. Denver: Privacy Foundation, September 5, 2001.

2000

Alderman, Ellen and Caroline Kennedy. The Internet, Consumers and Privacy. Sponsored by the Internet Policy Institute. Washington DC: IPI, July 7, 2000. This document is also available as a PDF file and a Word document.
Brown, Ian, University College London, Department of Computer Science, Simon Davies and Gus Hosein, The London School of Economics, Department of Information Systems. The Economic Impact of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill. Sponsored by the British Chambers of Commerce. London: BCC, June 12, 2000. The full report is available in either Word or PDF format. Also of interest is the proposed RIP bill which is discussed in this report.
Federal Trade Commission. Figures and Trends on Identity Theft November 1999 through September 2000. Washington DC: FTC, October 23, 2000. Also of interest is the workshop at which this report was presented.
_____. Information on Identity Theft For Consumers in California From November 1999 to July 2000. Washington DC: FTC, August 22, 2000. Please not that this report is a PDF file. Also of interest is the testimony in which this report was presented.
_____. Online Profiling: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress. Washington DC: FTC, June 13, 2000. Please note that this report is a PDF file. Also of interest is the Senate hearing, "Online Profiling and Privacy," where this report was presented.
_____. Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace: A Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress. Washington DC: FTC, May 22, 2000. Please Note: this report contains several PDF documents.
Federal Trade Commission, Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. Final Report of the Federal Trade Commission Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. Washington DC:FTC, May 15, 2000.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs of New Zealand. Electronic Commerce and the New Zealand Consumer – A Status Report (and a Proposed New Zealand Model Code for Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce). Auckland: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, March 2000. Please note that the full paper is a Word document.
National Consumers League. Report from the National Consumers League to the US Department of Justice Concerning Telemarketing and Internet Fraud. Washington DC: NCL, January 10, 2000.
Office of the Governor, State of Washington. Public Records Privacy - Final Report: State Agency Progress in Implementing Executive Order 00-03. Olympia, WA: Office of the Governor, November 2000.
Pounder, Chris. Data Protection and Privacy Practice Marketing. London: DMA, May 2000. This paper provides guidance for complying with the most recent version of the UK Data Protection Law. The paper is a PDF document.
Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, House of Representatives, Parliament of Australia. Advisory Report on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000. Canberra: Parliament, June 26, 2000. SEE ALSO the bill , now law, that this report discusses.
Turow, Joseph and Lilach Nir. The Internet and the Family 2000: The View from Parents, the View from Kids. Sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: APPC, May 2000. Please Note that this report is a PDF file.
US Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, President's Working Group on Unlawful Conduct on the Internet. The Electronic Frontier: The Challenge of Unlawful Conduct Involving the Use of the Internet. Washington DC:DOJ, March 2000.
_____.Appendixes to "The Electronic Frontier: The Challenge of Unlawful Conduct Involving the Use of the Internet. Washington DC:DOJ, March 9, 2000.
United States General Accounting Office. Internet Privacy: Agencies' Efforts to Implement OMB's Privacy Policy. Prepared for Senator Joseph Lieberman, Committee on Governmental Affairs, US Senate. Washington DC:GAO, September 21, 2000. This report is a PDF document.

1999

Cate, Fred H. and Richard J. Varn. The Public Record: Information Privacy and Access: A New Framework for Finding the Balance. Sponsored by the Coalition for Sensible Public Record Access. Washington DC: CSPRA, 1999. This document is in PDF format.
Center for Democracy and Technology. Behind the Numbers: Privacy Practices on the Web. Washington DC: CDT, July 1999. Note: This document is in PDF format.
Computer Systems Policy Project. Advancing Global Electronic Commerce: Technology Solutions to Public Policy Challenges. Washington DC: CSPP, July 1999. Note: This document is in PDF format.
Culnan, Mary J., McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. Privacy and the Top 100 Web Sites: A Report to the Federal Trade Commission. Draft Report. Sponsored by the Online Privacy Alliance. Washington DC: MSB, May 1999.
_____. Privacy Online in 1999: A Report to the Federal Trade Commission. Draft Report. Washington DC: MSB, May 1999.
Electronic Privacy Information Center. Cryptography and Liberty 1999: An International Survey of Encryption Policy. Washington DC: EPIC, June 1999.
Federal Trade Commission. Self Regulation and Privacy Online: A Report to Congress. Washington DC: FTC, July 1999.
Health Privacy Project. The State of Health Privacy: An Uneven Terrain. Washington DC: Health Privacy Project, August 1999.
Health Privacy Project, Health Privacy Working Group. Best Principles for Health Privacy. Washington DC: Health Privacy Project, July 1999.This document is in PDF format.
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and Registratiekamer(the Data Protection Authority of the Netherlands). Intelligent Software Agents: Turning a Privacy Threat into a Privacy Protector. Ontario: IPC, April 1999.
Office of Information Practices, State of Hawaii. The Commercial Use of Personal Information. Honolulu: OIP, December 1999.
Robert E. Nolan Company. Pending Federal Confidentiality Legislation Expensive for Health Care Organizations. Sponsored by the BlueCross and BlueShield Association. Dallas: Robert E. Nolan Company, October 1999. NOTE: the full report is in PDF format. Also of interest is the reply to this report by AHIMA of November 1999.
Transatlantic Business Dialogue. TABD Mid Year Report. Washington DC: TABD, May 1999.
United States Department of Justice. 1999 Report on Cyberstalking: A New Challenge for Law Enforcement and Industry. Commissioned by the Vice President of the United States. Washington DC: DOJ, August 1999.

1998

Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Privacy: The Key to Electronic Commerce. Ontario: IPC, April 1998.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and National Committee for Quality Assurance. Protecting Personal Health Information: A Framework for Meeting the Challenges in a Managed Care Environment. Washington DC: NCQA, November 1998.
Reidenberg, Joel R. and Paul M. Schwartz. Data Protection Law and On-Line Services: Regulatory Responses. Commissioned from ARETE by Directorate General XV of the Commission of the European Communities. Brussels: DG15, December 1998.
Department of State Development, Multimedia Victoria. Global Victoria: Victorian Government Information Technology and Multimedia Policy. Melbourne, Victoria: MMV, June 1998.

1997

Bennett, Colin J. Prospects for an International Standard for Protection of Personal Information: A Report of the Standards Council of Canada. Discussion Draft. Provided for the Experts Group Meeting. Fordham Law School, September 22, 1997.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Report to Congress Concerning the Availability of Consumer Identifying Information and Financial Fraud. Washington DC: Federal Reserve, March 1997. Note: This document is in PDF format.
Electronic Commerce Promotion Council of Japan, Working Group on Privacy Issues. MidTerm Report on the Protection of Personal Data. Tokyo: Chuo University, Professor Massao Horibe, Council Chair, 1997.
European Commission. A European Initiative in Electronic Commerce. Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. COM(97)157. Brussels: European Commission. May 1997.
Federation of European Direct Marketing. Codes of Practice, Direct Marketing and Online Services. Prepared for the European Commission. Brussels: FEDMA, November 1997.
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Smart, Optical and Other Advanced Cards: How to do a Privacy Assessment. A Joint Project of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and the Advanced Card Technology Association of Canada. Ontario: IPC, September 1997.
National Information Infrastructure Task Force, Information Policy Committee. Options for Promoting Privacy on the National Information Infrastructure. Draft for Public Comment. Washington DC: NII Task Force, April 1997.
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Privacy and Self Regulation in the Information Age. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, June 1997.
The White House. A Framework for Global Electronic Commerce. Washington DC: The White House, July 1997.

1996

Bennett, Colin J., Regulating Privacy in Canada: An Analysis of Oversight and Enforcement in the Private Sector. Sponsored by Industry Canada. Ottawa: IC, May 1996.
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection. Staff Report: Public Workshop on Consumer Privacy on the Global Information Infrastructure. Washington DC: Federal Trade Commission, December 1996.

1995

Global Information Infrastructure Commission. Assessing Data Privacy in the 1990's and Beyond: A Report on a Questionnaire on Data Protection and Privacy. Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 1995.

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