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	Cyberspace Independence Declaration URL: http://www.hax.com/CyberSpaceDeclaration.html ODP description: John Perry Barlow's Declaration "Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather...."
	The Center for the Study of Technology and Society URL: http://www.tecsoc.org/innovate2/innovate.htm ODP description: News updates from around the world concerning information technology, privacy and security. Articles deal with DNA databases, web monitoring, employee privacy. Links to other resources concerned with personal privacy and security on the Internet. Page title: The Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Innovation Page description: A nonprofit educational and research organization based in Washington, D.C. that studies the social effects of technology.
	NYTimes.com - Pop Go Those Blasted Pop-Up Ads, iVillage Decrees URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/29/technology/29POP.html ODP description: Pop-up windows have earned the scorn of readers, who say they find the ads' multiplying images annoying. iVillage, a network of Web sites for women, says it is heeding its readers' complaints and plans to eliminate most pop-up advertising by Sept. 30, 2002 on all its sites. Page title: The New York Times > Log In
	Pew Internet and American Life Project URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/ ODP description: Research about the Internet's impact on communities. Includes reports and polls. Page title: Pew Internet & American Life Project Page description: The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internet's growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial.
	Electronic Privacy Organizations and Resources URL: http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/CPL/privacy.htm ODP description: On site information and links to electronic privacy resources from Cornell University's Computer Policy and Law Program. Page title: Cornell Computer Policy and Law Program
	Web Epistemology - The Web as Distributed Knowledge URL: http://webepistemology.org/ ODP description: Research project for the study of the web from an epistemological standpoint: relevance, authority and epistemic deference, democratization of knowledge, distributed cognition. Page title: webepistemology.org \| The Web as Distributed Knowledge
	Littering the Information Superhighway URL: http://www.claudiax.net/littering_the_infobahn.html ODP description: Homepage link to information about privacy, spam, and issues concerning data quality. Page description: Litter clutters the public internet
	W.H.O.A. - Working to Halt Online Abuse URL: http://www.haltabuse.org/ ODP description: The mission of W.H.O.A. is to educate the Internet community about online harassment, empower victims of harassment, and formulate voluntary policies that systems can adopt in order to create harassment-free environments. Page title: Working to Halt Online Abuse Page description: Official Web Site of Working to Halt Online Abuse
	NYTimes.com - Dirty Laundry, Online for All to See URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/technology/circuits/05CINC.html ODP description: Cincinnati, Ohio has put public documents online at courtclerk.org, and this has had a divisive impact on the community. [Requires free NYTimes.com registration to view.] Page title: The New York Times > Log In
	Yahoo! News Full Coverage - Online Privacy URL: http://news.yahoo.com/fc/Tech/Internet_Privacy ODP description: News articles gathered from a variety of sources concerning privacy and the Internet. [Archive only, no longer maintained.] Page title: Online Privacy Full Coverage on Yahoo! News
	Internet Misuse Survey 2002 URL: http://www.websense.com/company/news/research/Internet_Misuse_Survey_2002.pdf ODP description: Conducted on the Personneltoday.com website during May 2002 among 544 personnel managers and officers employing an average of 2,500 staff. An analysis of the results was carried out by NSM research company.
	Women-Related Internet Info Email Lists URL: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/wmsttoc.html ODP description: List of news and discussion groups for women interested in the digital divide based on gender. Page title: WMST-L File Collection Page description: More than 270 files concerned with women's studies teaching, research, or program administration. They include discussions that took place on WMST-L, essays, interviews, bibliographies, and more. Eighteen topical sections make searching easy.
	Child Online Protection Act URL: http://www.epic.org/free_speech/censorship/hr3783-report.html ODP description: Text of 1998 House Report 105-775 from EPIC. Page title: House Report 105-775 -- Child Online Protection Act
	How Stuff Works: How the FBI's Carnivore Works URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/carnivore.htm ODP description: In-depth narrative explains what exactly the FBI's Carnivore is, where it came from, how it works, and what its purpose is, with many related links. Page title: Howstuffworks "How Carnivore Worked"
	Closing the Digital Divide URL: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/dn/ ODP description: Provides survey and demographic information on access to the internet, as well as data on underserved populations and areas. Created by the US Department of Commerce. Page title: A Nation Online
	The Debate Over Internet Governance: A Snapshot in the Year 2000 URL: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/introduction.html ODP description: Information on understanding the nature of the debate over ICANN and internet governance. Page title: The Debate Over Internet Governance: Introduction Page description: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development.