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	Personal Privacy Personal rights, freedoms, 1st. Amendment, Horror Stories, 4th. Amendment, you'll find it here.Feel free to contribute to the Class I Infowar area or join our discussion group from the Home Page. Articles USA: Who's watching the 'Watchers'? by K.K. Campbell USA: New Internet scam costs unsuspecting users a bundle. AUSTRALIA: News and features - Anger as police track mobile phones. Buyer Beware Ripoffs: A friend was the victim, so I am honoring his anonymity. No such thing as a freebee! House hearing on secure communications, February 11. UK: Computers - UK Police use mobiles to tag callers. UK: FBI carries out nationwide searches in software probe. By Adrian Croft UK: WATCHING YOU? German Police Raid "junge Welt", Seize Computers Mobile Phone Tagging Computer Club Transfers Money Without Using PIN. Author Sues Literary Agency Over Bogus Cyber-Messages China Represents Ethical Quagmire in High-Tech Age A good article in Fortune magazine, "Who's Reading Your E-Mail" by Richard Behar. Link to: http://pathfinder.com/@@Z5jTZQQAfHamDNq5/fortune/1997/970203/eml.html While you are there, read "The Myth of E-Mail Privacy" by Eryn Brown. Link to: http://pathfinder.com/@@Z5jTZQQAfHamDNq5/fortune/1997/970203/eml.html#privacy Signature Privacy Shot Dead: You Gotta Read This! Poor Newt!....but it is easy to eavesdrop on cellular calls and how seldom cases are prosecuted -- even though the law is violated daily. Press Release from PRNewswire: New Internet Service to Offer Businesses Searchable Public Records. Federal Reserve Launches Privacy Study New Online Privacy Bill Introduced in Congress AOL sets limits in Russia because of fraud Site-filtering controversy likely to heat up. Porno spam prompts safety-net. Law Professor Sues Federal Government Over Computer Privacy Issues. CANADA: Pornography Scandal Presents opportunity to software company. NEW WEAPON IN DIGITAL PORN WAR By Allan Smith, PA News. New Fingerprint System The USDC ruled last month that Cyber Promotions does NOT have the legal right to spam AOL users. This is the complete court decision. In excerpt, "Cyber Promotions does not have a right under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or under the Constitutions of Pennsylvania and Virginia to send unsolicited e-mail advertisements over the Internet to members of America Online, Inc. and, as a result, America Online, Inc. may block any attempts by Cyber Promotions to do so." COURT DECLARES CRYPTO RESTRICTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONAL Free Speech Trumps Clinton Wiretap Plan. German Cabinet Approves Internet Regulation Info War: Attacks on Personal Information. Delivered to the SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION WARFARE, Montreal, Quebec. Recently a paper was copied from the site without the author's, and Winn Schwartau's permission regarding the E-Bomb. It was used in a TV broadcast in Europe by Thema televison. Our global readers wrote us in mass regarding this because parts of the broadcast were in question as being accurate. We asked for a right of reply. No reply to inforwar.com has been received from ARTE-Thema. This is a classic example of disinformation.... information warfare. A warrior wrote, "This whole affair is becoming worth a conference paper. Infowar against the InfoWarrior - the use of the Mass Media as a Tool for Coercion!" Read a copy of our letter to Thema television. NJ Genetic Privacy Bill ---- DNA data is a hot topic! IBM figures the human body is the ultimate modem. But alas, limited to 2400 baud. Courtesy, Wall Street Journal. Internet Privacy/Censorship debate continues. Take our link to MSNBC for a 4 part look at what is going on with Platform for Internet Content Selection - PICS New Full Body Scanning Planned for US Airport Security; But is it safe? Excellent information on How To Get Less Junk Mail... Update to email message below. This is a VERY disturbing file. Do NOT read it or open it UNLESS you can handle senstivie issues like pedephilia. I received this email message on Monday morning, Oct. 21. Beware of the Answering Machine Scam!!! You can't even trust your answering machine these days. Memorandum on 'Arab Intranet' to be signed next week. UK Tries to Remove Pornography from the Net. The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications is currently working on Data Protection and Privacy on the Internet. You can hide yourself, but it takes time and effort, and sometimes you walk a fine line. Your ISP is like your doctor or lawyer. Are they maintaining your privacy? GERMAN GOVERNMENT PUSHES BLOCKAGE OF NETHERLANDS WEB SITES. By Christine A.R. McNulty "Changing Values and Their Implications for the Ethics of Information Warfare." The information revolution has given us all manner of wonderful things, but it has also created a monster - information warfare. At its heart, information warfare is about people - as individuals and organizations. McNulty presents a clear picture at what we are actually prepared to do; to what degree are we willing to be other than "nice guys", and to what degree are we willing to give up aspects of our own freedom in the name of security. Pro-Privacy Encryption Legislation: Your Help is Needed NOW! Lexis-Nexis sells a commercial database called "Ptrax" which holds detailed personal information on nearly all Americans (L-N claims it contains 300 million names). This describes how to remove your name from it. Spam lists. An article by one of the most outstanding women in the field of Information Warfare. Dr. Elin Whitney-Smith of George Washington University shows how it is necessary to *connect* people to an individual source of information that will ultimately foster economic, political development and individual identity. Don't miss "Information Revolutions, National Security and Individual Consciousness: Changing Paradigms." Anon.Penet.Fi Anonymous remailer to be closed. "This is indeed a sad day in history of the Net," one comment begins. Read why. Statement from the National Science Foundaton - Blocking Iran National Science Foundation Blocks Internet to Iran! Assassination Politics shows some of the downside risks to anonymity on the Net. Rather negative, could be shocking, but needs to be understood. Short comments by Winn Schwartau on It'll Never Happen To You. But, it can and has and will. A Press Release on New Privacy Book Vladimir Z. Nuri" posted this article (to Cypherpunks) about Global Eavesdropping. Make your own decisions, or buy the book. G7 threat to online privacy and free speech. Stolen Identities is a short Associated Press report about how Jon Smith had to rebuild his life after his electronic identity was stolen.

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