Required Reading for Monday February 21/Tuesday February 22

• "Why Privacy is Important" by James Rachels, 1975, class handout.

• Article #16 "Privacy in a Database Nation", pages 137-152;

• [Subject to Change]

Links for Further Study

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) Home page. Has many pages on privacy - see next link.

• Privacy and Civil Liberties at CPSR

• Electronic Privacy Information Center

• privacy.org A site for news, information and action on Privacy.

• The PRIVACY Forum Partially sponsored by ACM.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation

• CheckPoint Data Brokering Company Scandal February 19, 2005

• Washington Post article about the CheckPoint, Inc. BEFORE the scandal (dated Jan 19, 2005)

• Latest on Slashdot about CheckPoint scandal February 18, 2005