Subj: Online Privacy: Perspectives of Privacy Right
From: Paul Sholtz, Chief Technology Officer, PrivacyRight Inc., c/o Amy Hanson, 703- 299-
9470
To: Internet Caucus Advisory Committee

TECHNOLOGY TOOLS AND PRIVACY EMPOWERMENT

Empowering individual privacy begins with strong cryptography. Cryptography is used 
to prevent eavesdropping by randomly scrambling documents and communications. 
The intended recipients of the information are given the keys decipher the message, which 
is unintelligible to everyone else.

Some examples of strong cryptography for consumer user include Pretty Good Privacy 
(PGP), a secure email program developed by Phil Zimmerman and SSL, the secure 
networking protocol developed at Netscape that powers most secure Web browsers and 
servers on the Internet.

Ultimately, privacy is also a matter of policy. If an organization collects information about 
an individual without the individual's consent, or if it uses the information in a way 
inconsistent with the individual's preferences, a privacy violation has occurred. The Code of 
Fair Information Practices outlines a set of constructive data practices for organizations 
that maintain consumer information databases. PrivacyRight is working to bring the CFIP to 
the Web through hosted data management solutions.