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 Protecting Privacy Online

Internet Privacy - a handout about how you can protect the privacy of the visitors of your Web site.

Sample Privacy Policy - A sample privacy policy provided by Better Business Bureau.

Privacy Policy Generator - The Organisation for Ecomomic Co-opertation and Development has created a questionnaire that helps to create a draft privacy policy.

Online Privacy for Nonprofits - The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse provides a great fact sheet on privacy issues faced by non-profits. The sheet can help you think about how an organization collects information and what they do with it.

Checklist for Information Handing - The Privacy Clearinghouse provides a good check list for assessing information collection and use. The checklist goes beyond just the Internet to include other information collection practices.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act - The FTC is responsible for enforcing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA restricts the collection of personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. To learn more check out the FTC's web site.

Protecting Your Privacy - Want to know more about how to protect your own privacy? Check out Consumer Privacy Guide.org.

Electronic Privacy Information Center - Can't get enough? Check out EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center), they are a non-profit tracking (and advocating) the issue of privacy, both online and off.

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