Credit Bureau Forms
If you want to get your name off marketing lists, fill out this form and send it to the credit reporting agencies. This is a site at the Federal Trade Commission.
Cyberspace Law Center
A guide to resources of online issues including cyberprivacy, intellectual rights, e-commerce etc.
Direct Marketing Association
This links to a form which you can fill out to keep from getting junk mail.
Not all companies use MPS to purge their mailing lists, therefore, you may continue to receive some companies' promotions. In this instance, contact the company directly and ask to be placed on the company's do-not-mail file.
Driver's License Data
Want some of the information the State of Minnesota collects from its drivers? Just click here and fill out the form. It's that easy.
Electronic Privacy Information Center
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.
Federal Trade Commission
Plenty of documents on protecting privacy, especially for kids.
There are also links to forms to get your name off lists.
Health Privacy Project
The Health Privacy Project is dedicated to raising public awareness of the importance of ensuring health privacy in order to improve health care access and quality, both on an individual and a community level.
Junkbusters
This site is devoted exclusively to marketing information. It also has a lot of information about how marketing companies gather information about you.
Operation Opt Out
The Center for Democracy and Technology resource for consumers to "get off the lists" - the mailing and telephone lists and profiling databases that have proliferated with the digital economy.
Privacy Journal
Privacy Journal is a monthly newsletter reporting on new technology and its impact on personal privacy. It was founded in 1974 in Washington, D.C., and is now based in Providence, R.I. Robert Ellis Smith, Privacy Journal's publisher, is a journalist who uses his training as an attorney to write and edit the newsletter. He is a frequent speaker and book author about all aspects of privacy.
Privacy Rights Clearing House
The PRC offers consumers a unique opportunity to learn how to protect their personal privacy. Publications provide in-depth information on a variety of informational privacy issues, as well as practical tips on safeguarding personal privacy.
Privacy Times
A site with plenty of information about breaking news with a privacy theme. Also has resources on how to protect your privacy.
If you know of a site which should be added to this list, please let us know.