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Pro-privacy group that protests against surveillance cameras by performing silent specially adapted plays directly in front of them.
site exerpt
New York Surveillance Camera Players  Only someone completely distrustful of all government would be opposed to what we are doing with surveillance cameras NYC Police Commissioner Howard Safir, 27 July 1999. the Surveillance Camera Players: completely distrustful of all government. About us After 11 September...
http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

Independent, non-profit, global initiative aimed at building trust and confidence in online transactions through the adoption of a branded "trustmark" informing users of how their personal information is handled by online organizations.
http://www.truste.org/

EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's collection of articles relating to issues of Privacy. These range from proposed and enacted legislation to resource lists for activists.
http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy

Human rights "watchdog" organization focused on privacy intrusions by government and businesses. Site has lots of privacy issue articles.
http://www.privacyinternational.org/

The IPC promotes privacy and security on the Internet through widespread public availability of strong encryption and the relaxation of export controls on cryptography.
http://www.privacy.org/ipc/

Creating trust relationships between site owners and their visitors.
http://www.siteguardian.org

Describes how the United States risks of turning into a full-fledged surveillance society through surveillance-enabling technologies and loosening checks on government spying.
http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/PrivacyMain.cfm

A non-profit organization whose goal is to enable people to make well-informed decisions about the importance of privacy on both a personal and societal level.
http://www.privacyactivism.org/

A nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (NGO) dedicated to promoting global justice through the protection of human rights and humanitarian workers, journalists and the information they collect and communicate for the public good; and the preservation of freedoms for security professionals who do open research on security and safety issues in the public interest.
http://www.cryptorights.org/

Archived information from a group opposed to credit reporting and scoring, on the grounds that they are devastating to privacy.
http://www.srv.net/~dkv/vcr/

Works to educate consumers about the unfair practices that occur daily in the credit reporting industry, educate businesses about how to protect the financial and personal information of their clients, and provide a system for consumers to monitor the activity and accuracy of their credit records.
http://www.guardmycreditfile.org/