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Electronic Rights: Freedom and Privacy in an Information World
The aim of this project, this Web site, is to cover some of the important areas
of rights on the Internet, and regarding technology as a whole to a lesser extent.
The main areas covered are those of the right to privacy, freedom of speech,
freedom of publishing content, and issues related to intellectual property and
copyright material.
The issues of privacy, freedom of speech, and of copyright are becoming ever more
important in this information-driven world.

This is a list of the contents of the site:

- Main Page
- The main index of the site, this page.
- Privacy
- Privacy issues including
Anonymity,
Encryption,
Dissemination of Private Information,
Cookies,
Advertising,
Biometrics, and
Caller ID.
- Censorship: Freedom of Speech
& Content
- Censorship issues covering the USA,
Europe, and general
Self-censorship issues.
- Intellectual
Property
- This area covers issues of copyright with regards electronic distribution, and
the World Wide Web
specifically.
- References
- A list of all newspapers,
periodicals and
Web pages referred to in the
text of this site.
- Acknowledgements
- The Acknowledgements section includes
design acknowledgements and
bibliography of materials for
further reading which I found useful in creating this site, as well as
several miscellaneous items: notes on
viewing and
navigating this site, and some
general comments.

This site is a project created by Stephen
Jacob, stjacob@tcd.ie, for course
2BA6: Computers and
Society, a second year Computer Science
course in Dublin University, Trinity College
Dublin. Research, layout design, graphic design and content by Stephen Jacob.
Details of the author and project are provided below:
- Name: Stephen Jacob
- Student Number: 93145225
- E-mail: stjacob@tcd.ie
- WWW: Stephen Jacob's Home
Page
- Course: Senior Freshman Computer Science
- Subject: 2BA6:
Computers and Society
- Project: 2BA6 Semester 1
Project: WWW Site
- Date: 12 December 1996

Target audience: This site is intended to give an overview of the
issues at stake to interested readers with a basic knowledge of the Internet
and its protocols.
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