Privacy

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants: Accountant certification for auditing privacy standards on web sites. http://www.cpaWebtrust.org

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: The site provides a complete regulation of the Rights to Financial Privacy Act (Reg. P). http://www.federalreserve.gov/Regulations/RegRef.htm#p

CommerceNet Consortium: Provides a certification program, TRUSTe seal, for web sites conforming to specified privacy standards. http://www.truste.org/

Department of Consumer Affairs: The site provides guidelines in case you are victim of identity theft. It also offers news related to privacy. http://www.privacyprotection.ca.gov/

Electronic Privacy Information Center: EPIC is a public interest research center focusing on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. http://www.epic.org/

Federal Trade Commission ID Theft Site: A comprehensive site on ID Theft. http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/index.html

Federal Trade Commission Privacy Initiatives: This site provides current press releases, reports, and children's privacy information. http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/index.html

National Credit Union Administration: This site provides a pdf file "Privacy Choices for Your Personal Financial Information". http://www.ncua.gov/ConsumerInformation/consumer_privacy/privacybrochure.pdf

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network: http://www.fincen.gov This site allows you to download the current CTR and SAR as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file. There are also an online version that can be filled out and printed out. The most current reports can be downloaded at http://www.fincen.gov/f9022-47-1a.pdf

Identity Theft and Pretext Calling: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Division of Banking and Supervisioin and Regulation, SR 01-11 (SUP) April 26, 2001. Similar bulletins have been issued by the FDIC, NCUA, and OTS. http://www.federalreserve.gov/Boarddocs/SRletters/2001/sr0111.htm

Personalization Consortium: This advocacy group's mission is to provide information, sample policies and recommended uses of information. http://www.personalization.org/

Privacy Rule, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: Site of the proposed rule on privacy implementing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/press/Boardacts/2000/20000222/DEFAULT.HTM

Privacy Rights Clearing House: Provides links, speeches, articles and research on consumer privacy. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a nonprofit consumer information and advocacy program. http://www.privacyrights.org/index.htm

Sans InfoSec Reading Room: This site has access to hundreds of current articles on information and systems security. http://www.sans.org/rr/

Social Engineering Fundamentals, Part I: Hacker Tactics by Sarah Granger . December 18, 2001. http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1527

Theft ID, U.S. Federal Trade Commission: Provides information on identification theft. http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/

U.S. Code: Right to Financial Privacy: Provides up-to-date statutes on Chapter 35, Right to Financial Privacy. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode12/usc_sup_01_12_10_35.html