The purpose of this page is to provide central resources for topics related to Privacy and Cybercrime. This list is not an exhaustive list; this is only a working list / page.

Privacy

• Definitions
1. Privacy as the “claim of individuals, groups or institutions [organizations] to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others...privacy is never absolute... he [individual] balances the desire for privacy with the desire for disclosure and communication…” Dr. Alan Westin in his book Privacy and Freedom.
2. “Privacy is not an absolute. It is contextual and subjective…” valuation [the consequences] will depend significantly on who [individual] is making it... neither privacy values nor costs are absolute...” Fed H Cate in his book Privacy in the Information Age.
3. "... right to be left alone…" in the famous The Right to Privacy.
• Books
1. Lorrie Faith Cranor. Web Privacy with P3P. O’Reilly & Associates. 2002.
2. Lorrie Faith Cranor and Simson Garfinkel. Designing Secure Systems that People Can Use. O’Reilly. 2005.
3. Simson Garfinkel. Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. O'Reilly Media. 2001.
4. Markus Jakobsson and Steven Myers. Phishing and Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft. Wiley-Interscience. Dec. 2006.
5. Lance James. Phishing Exposed. Syngress. 2005.
6. Rachael Lininger and Russel Dean Vines. Phishing: Cutting the Identity Theft Line. Wiley, publishing Inc. 2005.
• Journal / conference / workshop papers / articles (In the Indian context)
1. Vinita Bali. Data Privacy, Data Piracy: Can India Provide Adequate Protection for Electronically Transferred Data? Santa Clara University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-10.
2. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Lorrie Cranor. Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness. In Proceedings of the 2005 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET2005), 30 May - 1 June 2005, Dubrovnik, Croatia .
3. Jana Diesner, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Kathleen Carley. Mental Models of Data Privacy and Security Extracted from Interviews with Indians. 55th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association ( ICA), May 26-30, 2005. New York, NY.
4. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Lorrie Faith Cranor and Elaine Newton. Privacy Perceptions in India and the United States: An Interview Study. In The 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy (TPRC), Sep 23 - Sep 25, 2005, The National Center for Technology & Law, George Mason University School of Law, USA.
• Bibliographies
1. Anonymity
2. Human Computer Interaction of Security (HCISec)
• Associations / Labs
1. Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG)
2. CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory
3. Data Privacy Lab
4. Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
5. International Association for Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
6. Privacy International
7. Privacy.org
8. Stop-Phishing.com
• Researchers
1. Alessandro Acquisti
2. Edoardo M. Airoldi
3. Lorrie Faith Cranor
4. Rachna Damija
5. Simson L. Garfinkel
6. Jason I. Hong
7. Markus Jakobsson
8. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (PK)
9. Brad Malin
10. Latanya Sweeney
• Phishing
1. Ebay tutorial on spoof email
2. Federal Trade Commission. An E-Card for You.
• Others
1. Mysecurecyberspace – A portal designed to teach kids about cyberspace and security.

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