Privacy Journal is the most authoritative publication in the world on the individual's right to privacy.
The monthly newsletter was founded in 1974, before there was an Internet, before there was e-mail, and before there was automated telemarketing. Thus, it's the oldest publication on privacy in the world.
This acclaimed monthly newsletter is always full of news on new technology and its impact on privacy, useful tips for protecting your privacy, and the latest on court decisions, legislation, professional conferences, and corporate practices.
Robert Ellis Smith (left), who is recognized as the leading expert on the right to privacy in the U.S., is the publisher. He is an experienced journalist, a lawyer, an author of several essential books on privacy. Twice he has been asked to write the definition of privacy for the World Book Encyclopedia.
Smith digs through reams of government documents and interviews all the important people who affect privacy policies; he's an enterprising journalist who insists on originality and accuracy in his stories. He makes this guarantee: Privacy Journal will keep you weeks ahead of the mainstream press in informing you of news that affects personal privacy. If not, we will refund your money.
Smith covers privacy in all of its aspects: the Internet, credit reporting, medical records, computer security, unwanted telephone calls, electronic surveillance, access to an individual's own records, the impact of European and Canadian practices on the U.S., biometric identification systems, the common law of privacy, the constitutional right to privacy, and much more. No other expert is poised to provide such a well-rounded, assertive approach to providing the essential news on this essential subject.
Smith is the author of Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity From Plymouth Rock to the Internet, the acclaimed 407-page account of privacy throughout American history. Second printing in 2004.
His first book, Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It, was nominated for the National Book Award in 1980.
A graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center, Smith was a daily news reporter, weekly newspaper editor, and then assistant director of civil rights in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services before starting Privacy Journal in 1974.
He has taught at Harvard, Brown University, Emerson College, and the University of Maryland.
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As experienced analysts in this field, we think that people fret needlessly about sending credit card numbers by email. Nonetheless we urge our customers to send the expiration date by a separate email later in the day and we urge them to delete their numbers from previous correspondence when they write to us a second time.
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Privacy Journal ISSN 0145-7659
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