Welcome to Privacilla.org

Privacilla is a unique Web-based project that seeks to capture "privacy" as a public policy issue. On the pages of this site, you will find privacy information and links that are designed for policy-makers, their staffs, the press, and the interested public.

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05/12/06 Advice: Communicating with Congress About NSA Surveillance Programs

05/11/06 Press Release: NSA Database Violates All Americans' Privacy

[added 04/26/06] 01/26/06 Podcast: Remarks to the American Association of Law Schools Panel Entitled "Tracked, Profiled, and Identified: Privacy and the Linkage of Data to Individuals" (MP3 format - Harper comments begin at 35:20)

04/12/06 Testimony: Testimony to the New Hampshire State Senate Committee on Public and Municipal Affairs regarding HB 1582, an act prohibiting New Hampshire from participating in a national identification card system

03/08/06 Press Release: DHS Privacy Committee Approves "Framework" Document

03/08/06 Document: Department of Homeland Security Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Framework for Privacy Analysis of Programs, Technologies, and Applications

06/09/05 Testimony: Testimony at the Hearing Entitled "The Promise of Registered Traveler" of the Subcommittee on Economic Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cybersecurity, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives [in PDF]

06/03/05 Book Review: How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life

05/11/05 Book Review: The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

04/15/05 Remarks to the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference Panel Entitled "The Economics of Privacy: Market or Regulation?"

[updated 04/26/06]