ABSTRACT Computerized Governmental Database Systems Containing Personal Information And The Right to Privacy by Lewis William Oleinick, M.P.Af. The University of Texas at Austin, 1993 SUPERVISORS: Chandler Stolp and Philip Doty This report identifies and examines the potential threats to individual privacy created by the collection, aggregation, and dissemination of personal information by governmental agencies and the role computer systems play in potentiating such threats. Computer matching, computer profiling, the national criminal justice database, and portfolio creation via data aggregation of personal information are the governmental activities stipulated to be potentially threatening to personal privacy. These four activities are forms of "dataveillance." Dataveillance poses dangers to the security of civil liberties in a free society. To carry on an intelligible discussion about privacy and how the collection, aggregation, and dissemination of personal information by governmental agencies may threaten individual privacy it is necessary to first define privacy and personal information. Independence, autonomy, dignity, and respect create a conceptual framework upon which privacy may be defined. Privacy is a culturally defined norm. As such a discussion of the American cultural tradition of privacy is necessary to understand both how Americans have defined privacy over time and the roles privacy has played in American society in 1) "starting over," 2) in interpersonal relationships, and 3) in maintaining the "balance of power" with the State. Privacy is held to be as important as the unalienable rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" by the majority of the American public. Americans have become more and more concerned with their privacy as intrusive technologies have evolved. Many Americans fear that computers allow the U.S. Government too much power over the average citizen. Privacy has been protected in the United States by precedents set in court cases, by legislation and by executive act. The breadth of cases pertaining to privacy precludes the examination of all cases. Supreme Court cases provide a historical overview of the evolution of the right to privacy as the questions presented to the Court have become more complex with the introduction of new technologies into the law enforcement process. Congress has attempted to address the public's concerns of the government's collection, aggregation, and dissemination of personal information by passing legislation designed to protect individual privacy. The four major pieces of legislation passed by Congress for the protection of the citizen's right to privacy are the Freedom of Information Act, the Privacy Act, the Computer Security Act of 1987, and the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988. The Office of Management and Budget has produced regulations designed to enforce the intent of the legislation promulgated by Congress. These regulations are contained in OMB Circular A-130 which details federal information policy. This report concludes by suggesting the need for the implementation of a Privacy Protection Board at the national level. Such a board would be based on the model suggested by David Flaherty. The primary conclusion that should be drawn from this report is that society as a whole must re-evaluate the existing paradigm of who should be in control of personal information; i.e., should it be the agency who collects it or should the power of control remain with the individual about whom the information was collected. This report suggests that a certain modicum of control over the disclosure of personal information should revert to the individual about whom the information was collected. ================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Description of Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Governmental Activities of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Reasons for Concern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Bringing the Concerns to a Personal Level . . . . . . . . .3 Justification for Focusing on Governmental Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Recapitulation of Topic and Statement of Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Explanation for the Ordering of the Presentation of Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Ordering of Presentation of Materials . . . . . . . . . . .6 Chapter 2. Governmental Dataveillance. . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Defining Surveillance and Dataveillance . . . . . . . . . .7 Forms of Governmental Dataveillance . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Transition from Personal Surveillance to Mass Dataveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Dangers of Personal and Mass Dataveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Chapter 3. Privacy and Personal Information: The Relationship Explored . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Terms necessary for the definition of privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Definition of Personal Information. . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Definition of Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Difficulties with Defining Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Chapter 4. The Cultural Tradition of Privacy in American Society27 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Public Opinions on Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Privacy's Role in "Starting Over" -- A Cultural Basis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The Role of Privacy of Personal Information in Interpersonal Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 The State and the "Balance of Power". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Chapter 5. A Brief Legal History of the Right to Privacy: A Survey of Selected Supreme Court Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Reasons for Choosing the Ten Cases. . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Analysis of Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Mapp v. Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Griswold v. State of Connecticut. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Katz v. United States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Stanley v. State of Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Eisenstadt v. Baird. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Roe v. Wade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 United States v. Miller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Whalen v. Roe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Bowers v. Hardwick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 United States Department of Justice v. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Summation of Cases and Problems with Judicial Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Chapter 6. Legislative and Executive Action to Protect the Privacy of Personal Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 The Freedom of Information Act. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 The Privacy Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Criminal Justice Information Control and Protection of Privacy Act of 1974 . . . . . . . . . . 82 The Computer Security Act of 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 The Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 OMB Circular A-130. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Chapter Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Chapter 7. Conclusion and Suggestions for Additional Legislation93 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Recapitulation of Major Themes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Policy and Advancing Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Government Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Suggestions for Additional Legislation. . . . . . . . . .101 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 ========================================================================= Received: (from NIUCS for via BSMTP) Received: (from A01MLRV@NIUCS for MAILER@NIU via NJE) (UCLA/Mail V1.410 M-RSCS8672-8672-846); Tue, 21 Sep 93 16:14:40 CDT Received: from NIUCS by NIUCS (Mailer R2.10 ptf000) with BSMTP id 6874; Tue, 21 Sep 93 16:14:19 CST Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu by vm.cso.niu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 21 Sep 93 16:14:15 CST Received: by mp.cs.niu.edu id AA16156 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for tk0jut1@niu.bitnet); Tue, 21 Sep 1993 16:14:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 16:14:03 -0500 From: jim thomas Message-Id: <199309212114.AA16156@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: tk0jut1 Last updated: 16-Sep-93 by John Labovitz This is a summary of electronically-accessible zines. The format should be fairly self-explanatory. In most cases, descriptions are excerpted from the masthead of the zine listed. RECENT CHANGES TO THIS LIST * Expanded this intro * The Amateur Computerist: new zine (still need description) * Arm The Spirit: added gopher site * Armadillo Culture: added gopher site * Athene: new zine (although now defunct) * Blink: added gopher site * CORE: new zine * Cousins: new zine * CTHEORY: added FTP & gopher sites * Cyberspace Vanguard: added gopher site * DargonZine: new zine * Drum: added gopher site * FactSheetFive Electric: added gopher site * FSFNet: new zine * FUNHOUSE!: added FTP & gopher sites * Hi-Rez: updated FTP location * High Weirdness by Email: added gopher site * Holy Temple of Mass Consumption: new zine * inter\face: new zine * InterText: added FTP & gopher sites * LIMINAL: new zine * Obscure Electric: added gopher site * Parthenogenesis: new zine * Power to the People Mover: new zine * Practical Anarchy: added FTP & gopher sites * PURPS: new zine * Quanta: added FTP & gopher sites * Random Access Humor: new zine * SCRATCH: new zine * Scream Baby: updated editor's email address, added FTP, gopher, and BBS sites * Screams of Abel: new zine * TapRoot Reviews Electronic Edition: added gopher site * Taylorology: new zine * The Undiscovered Country: new zine * Unit Circle Magazine: new zine * Unplastic News: updated FTP site, added gopher site * Voices from the Net: fixed editor's email address, updated FTP site, added gopher site * We Magazine: new zine * Whole Earth Review: added note about availability of text * Xenocide: new zine ADMINISTRIVIA If you have any additions, deletions, or changes to this list, please email them to johnl@netcom.com. I will post this list (and/or changes to the list) to the Internet List mailing list and Usenet news groups alt.zines, alt.etext, alt.internet.services, and rec.mag. It can also be obtained via anonymous FTP from netcom.com as "/pub/johnl/zines/e-zine-list", and via email (either single issues or subscriptions) from e-zines-request@netcom.com. If you publish an e-zine, or know someone who does, please send a copy to me and I'll add the relevant info to this database. Comments, suggestions, changes, deletions, etc., are welcomed and encouraged. WHAT IS A "ZINE"? For those of you not acquainted with the zine world, "zine" is short for either "fanzine" or "magazine," depending on your point of view. Zines are generally produced by one person or a small group of people, done often for fun or personal reasons, and tend to be irreverent, bizarre, and/or esoteric. Zines are not "mainstream" publications -- they generally do not contain advertisements (except, sometimes, advertisements for other zines), do not have a large subscriber base, and are generally not produced to make a profit. FORMATS Most e-zines listed here are in standard ASCII text format, which you can read on just about any computer or terminal, and print on any printer. A few are available in PostScript for printing on a laser printer (or viewing on-screen if you have a PostScript interpreter in your window system). A small number are available in some system-specific format (i.e., Macintosh HyperCard). HOW DO I GET THE E-ZINES? I have listed the various methods of access for each particular e-zine. Briefly, I use the following: FTP -- File Transfer Protocol Only accessible if you are directly on the Internet, or know of an FTP-mail server (I don't). The host/pathname is given in the form (host:path) that certain FTPs (like NCFTP) can use directly; otherwise, you'd probably type "ftp host" and then "cd path" or some such. All FTP sites listed accept anonymous logins (use "ftp" as username and your email address as password). E-Mail -- Electronic Mail You can usually request current or back issues via this address. Sometimes a site will run a mail server that automates some of this work. Instructions are listed, if applicable. Usenet -- Usenet News Only accessible if your site carries the specific Usenet group. Gopher Only accessible if your site is directly on the Internet. Try typing "gopher". If it works, you have a gopher client, and can usually type "gopher host". Postal Last resort, or point of contact for zines that have paper editions. Phone Why? I dunno; because it was there. CompuServe You know, that out-dated system that charges ridiculous rates. Other BBSes and other on-line systems the zine resides on. ----- The Amateur Computerist Editor(s): Ronda Hauben or Michael Hauben Format: ASCII text FTP: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/acn E-Mail: or Usenet: alt.amateur-comp Postal: R. Hauben, P.O. Box 4344, Dearborn, MI 48126, USA Arm The Spirit "Arm The Spirit is a anti-imperialist/autonomist collective that disseminates information about liberation struggles in advanced capitalist countries and in the so-called 'Third World.' Our focus is on armed struggle and other forms of militant resistance but we do not limit ourselves to this. In Arm The Spirit you can find news on political prisoners in North America and Europe, information on the struggles of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, communiques from guerrilla groups, debate and discussion on armed struggle and much more. We also attempt to cover anti-colonial national liberation struggles in Kurdistan, Puerto Rico, Euskadi and elsewhere." Editor(s): Autonome Forum Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Arm.the.Spirit Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu E-Mail: aforum@moose.uvm.edu, subject: "ATS: e-mail request" Postal: Arm The Spirit, c/o Wild Seed Press, POB 57584, Jackson Stn., Hamilton, Ontario, L8P 4X3, Canada Arm The Spirit, c/o Autonome Forum, POB 1242, Burlington, VT 05402-1242, USA Phone: +1 416 527 2419 (FAX for Canadian group) Armadillo Culture "Being the excremeditation of a hyperactive armadillo's activities, opinions, and other stuff..." Editor(s): Steve Okay Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Armadillo.Culture Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Armadillo Culture, 2857 Foxmill Rd. Herndon, VA 22071, USA ART COM "An online magazine forum dedicated to the interface of contemporary art and new communication technologies." Editor(s): Carl Eugene Loeffler Format: ASCII text Usenet: alt.artcom Postal: ART COM, POB 193123 Rincon, San Francisco, CA 94119-3123, USA Phone: +1 415 431 7524 (voice), +1 415 431 7841 (fax) Other: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link (WELL): ART COM Electronic Network (ACEN) Athene "The online magazine of amateur creative writing." Editor(s): Jim McCabe Format: ASCII text PostScript FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/Athene Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu NOTE: Athene has been renamed Intertext BLINK "BLINK would like to be a forum for the issues surrounding the intersection of consciousness and technology. This is our best defense against postmodern angst: To critically look at and anticipate the cultural and social changes spurred by the rapid development of technology." Editor(s): Justin Kerr Joe Germuska (managing editor) Danny Dunlavy (chiphead) Jake Eldridge (assistant editor) Format: ASCII text FTP: blink.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/blink Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Computer Underground Digest "An open forum dedicated to sharing information among computerists and to the presentation and debate of diverse views." Editor(s): Jim Thomas and Gordon Meyer Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/CuD/cud halcyon.com:/pub/mirror/cud aql.gatech.edu;/pub/eff/cud ftp.ee.mu.oz.au:/pub/text/CuD (Australia) nic.funet.fi:pub/doc/cud (Finland) ftp.warwick.ac.uk:pub/cud (United Kingdom) Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu gopher.cic.net Postal: Jim Thomas, Department of Sociology, NIU, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Phone: +1 815 753 0303 (voice), +1 815 753 6302 (fax) Usenet: comp.society.cu-digest CompuServe: DL0 and DL4 of the IBMBBS SIG; DL1 of LAWSIG; DL1 of TELECOM Other: GEnie: PF*NPC RT libraries; VIRUS/SECURITY library America Online: PC Telecom forum under "computing newsletters" Delphi: General Discussion database of the Internet SIG PC-EXEC BBS (+1 414 789 4210) Rune Stone BBS (IIRG WHQ) (+1 203 832 8441) NUP:Conspiracy RIPCO BBS (+1 312 528 5020) via Fidonet File Request from 1:11/70 ComNet in LUXEMBOURG BBS (+352 466893) Bits against the Empire BBS (+39 461 980493) (Italy) CORE "CORE is an electronic journal of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticsm." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/journals etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/CORE_Zine Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Cousins "A place for the Witches, pagans, nature spirits, fey-folk, and assorted elder kin of Sherwood to share ideas, challenges, dreams, and projects, and to stir up a little magic of our own." Editor(s): Susan Gavula Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Religious/Cousins Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Crash "A guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative travel stories, hints, and tips." Editor(s): John Labovitz Miles Poindexter Nigel French Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/crash Postal: Crash, 519 Castro #7, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA CTHEORY -- Virtual Review of Books for Post-Modern Theory "CTHEORY is a new international, electronic review of books on theory, technology and culture. Reviews are posted monthly of key books in contemporary discourse as well as theorisations of major 'event-scenes' in the mediascape. Editors and contributors include: Kathy Acker, Jean Baudrillard, Bruce Sterling, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Deena and Michael Weinstein. CTHEORY will also offer the possibility of interactive discussions among its subscribers in the electronic theory 'sim-posium/salon.'" Editor(s): Anastassia Khouri St-Pierre Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu Gopher: gopher.cic.net etext.archive.umich.edu E-Mail: LISTSERV@VM1.MCGILL.CA with text body: "SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY " Cyberspace Vanguard "News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe" Editor(s): TJ Goldstein Sarah Alexander, Administrator Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Cyberspace.Vanguard Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu E-Mail: cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu Cyberspace Vanguard@1:157/564 (FidoNet) CVANGUARD (Delphi) Postal: Cyberspace Vanguard, POB 25704, Garfield Heights, OH 44125, USA DargonZine -- The Magazine of the Dargon Project "DargonZine is an electronic magazine printing stories written for the Dargon Project, a shared-world anthology similar to (and inspired by) Robert Asprin's Thieves' World anthologies, created by David "Orny" Liscomb in his now retired magazine, FSFNet. The Dargon Project centers around a medieval-style duchy called Dargon in the far reaches of the Kingdom of Baranur on the world named Makdiar, and as such contains stories with a fantasy fiction/sword and sorcery flavor." Editor(s): Dafydd Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/DargonZine ftp.eff.org: Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Drum "Drum is not an isolated event but an ongoing process." Editor(s): R. Patrick Jones Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Drum Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Ego Project "This 'zine is a product of me and as such will contain anything I feel like putting in it. Whatever I feel like putting in it shall include, but is not limited too, anything I feel applies to Gothdom in general. Album/single/tape reviews, book and movies reviews, etc. The Sisters of Mercy and the Mission are my main focuses, but since neither of them put out music on anything resembling a frequent basis I imagine other groups will be featured quite frequently." Editor(s): Corey Nelson Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: Ego Project, 1717 Monroe #b, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA Factsheet Five / Factsheet Five - Electric "FactSheet Five is the central clearinghouse of information about zines, those opinionated publications with press runs of 50 to 5000 (often done through surrepticious use of on-the-job supplies and xerox). Mike Gunderloy of Rennsalaer, NY published 44 editions of F5. Hudson Luce published issue #45. Seth Friedman has published issue #46 onwards. I opened my big mouth (or, rather, let my fingers blab away) about doing an online, net-accessible version of FactSheet Five." Editor(s): Jerod Pore (electronic version) Seth Friedman (paper version) Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Factsheet.Five Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu WAIS: nigel.msen.com Postal: Seth Friedman, POB 170099, San Francisco, CA 94117-0099, USA (This is for the paper version *only*, especially subscriptions) Factsheet Five, 1800 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94102, USA (This is for *BOTH* the electronic and paper versions; or for items that can't be delivered to a PO box) Other: The WELL BBSes around the world FSFNet "BITNET fantasy-science fiction fanzine." Editor(s): 'Orny' Liscomb Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/FSFNet Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu FUNHOUSE! -- The cyberzine of degenerate pop culture "Dedicated to whatever happens to be on my mind at the time I'm writing. The focus will tend to be on those aspects of our fun-filled world which aren't given the attention of the bland traditional media, or which have been woefully misinterpreted or misdiagnosed by the same. FUNHOUSE! is basically a happy place, and thus the only real criteria I will try to meet is to refrain from rants, personal attacks, and flames -- and thus FUNHOUSE! is an apolitical place. Offbeat films, music, literature, and experiences are largely covered, with the one stipulation that articles are attempted to be detailed and well documemnted, although this is no guarantee of completeness or correctness, so that the interested reader may further pursue something which may spark her interest." Editor(s): Jeff Dove Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/funhouse etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Funhouse Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Hi-Rez "Electronic Journal for CyberBeatniks" Editor(s): Will Longman Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/CyberPunk/HI-REZ Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu High Weirdness by Email random Internet information Editor(s): Format: ASCII text Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Holy Temple of Mass Consumption "Articles, opinions, reviews, and artwork of a loosely-defined collection of cranks, weirdos, freaks, net.personalities, curmudgeons, and anyone else who turns us on at the time. Commentary on nearly everything, with particular attention to societal decay in general and mass-media conspiracy programming in particular. Or anything else we decide to write about, with strong ties to the finest SubGenius traditions." Editor(s): Wayne Aiken Format: ASCII text FTP: quartz.rutgers.edu:/pub/journals/HToMC Postal: HToMC, PO Box 30904, Raleigh, NC 27622-0904, USA Phone: +1 919 954 5956 (voice) Usenet: alt.slack, alt.discordia Other: StarFleet BBS (+1 919 954 5028) Hardcopy version available from PO Box address Free with SASE, otherwise $1, trade, or "neat stuff" inter\face "inter\face is an offering." Editor(s): Benjamin Henry Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Interface Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu International TeleTimes "International Teletimes is a general interest magazine. There are several recurring monthly columns but the rest of the content changes from month to month as new themes are chosen. The goal of Teletimes is to attract a large variety of writers from all over the world so that the readers will be exposed to a great variety of ideas and opinions." Editor(s): Ian Wojtowicz Format: Macintosh Doc-Maker application FTP: sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/per/teletimes-*.hqx Postal: TeleTimes International, 3938 West 30th Ave., Vancouver, BC V6S 1X3, Canada Other: OneNet (network of FirstClass BBSes) InterText "InterText is a bi-monthly fiction magazine with over 1000 subscribers worldwide." Editor(s): Jason Snell Geoff Duncan (assistant editor) Format: ASCII text PostScript FTP: network.ucsd.edu:/intertext etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/InterText Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu CompuServe: Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Zines from the Net" section, accessible by typing "GO EFFSIG" Postal: InterText, 21645 Parrotts Ferry, Sonora, CA 95370, USA LIMINAL -- Liminal Explorations "LIMINAL seeks to apply new inter and transdisciplinary methods, theories, ideas, concepts, and approaches to the study of cultural phenomena as well as the inventive application of existing approaches. The term 'cultural phenomena' is taken to mean, but not limited to meaning: 1) an activity engaged in by humans as members of a social network, 2) the product(s) of such engagement(s), 3) the motivators of such activities or engagements, 4) the functioning of such social networks themselves." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Liminal Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: The Liminal Group, Box 154, BGSU, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA Obscure Electronic "OBSCURE is the zine that profiles the people in this publishing subculture." Editor(s): James P Romenesko Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Obscure.Electric Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: POB 1334, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA Parthenogenesis Editor(s): Dan Herrick Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Parthenogenesis Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Parthenogenesis, 804 S. College Suite 8363, Ft. Collins, CO 80524, USA People Power Update The newsletter of the bicycle advocacy group "People Power" Editor(s): Ron Goodman Format: ASCII text FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/ppu Postal: People Power, 226 Jeter Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA Phone: +1 408 425 8851 (voice/fax) Play by EMail "Electronic 'zine about free play-by-electronic-mail wargames. Reviews, game openings, information." Editor(s): Greg Lindahl Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.erg.sri.com:/pub/pbm/PBEM-Fanzine Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Usenet: rec.games.pbm Power to the People Mover "POWER TO THE PEOPLE MOVER concerned with unusual and noteworthy behavior observed on mass transit systems, particularly the bus lines." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/People.Mover Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Cool It, P.O. Box 232741, Leucadia, CA 92023, USA Practical Anarchy Online "An electronic zine concerning anarchy from a practical point of view, to help you put some anarchy in your everyday life. The anarchy scene is covered through reviews and reports from people in the living anarchy." Editor(s): Chuck Munson Bitnet: cmunson@wiscmacc.bitnet Mikael Cardell Fidonet: Mikael Cardell@2:205/223 Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Spunk Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Practical Anarchy, POB 173, Madison, WI 53701-0173, USA Practical Anarchy, c/o Mikael Cardell, Gustav Adolfsgatan 3, S-582 20 Linkoping, Sweden PURPS Editor(s): Pope Jephe Doc Simpson Format: ASCII text E-Mail: FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Purps Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: IGHF, 955 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 209, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Quanta "Quanta is the electronically produced and distributed magazine of science fiction and fantasy. As such, each issues is packed with fiction from amateur and professional authors from around the world and across the net." Editor(s): Daniel K. Appelquist Format: PostScript ASCII text FTP: export.acs.cmu.edu:/pub/quanta ftp.eff.org:/journals/Quanta lth.se:/documents/Quanta catless.newcastle.ac.uk:/pub/Quanta etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Sci_Fiction/Quanta Gopher: gopher-srv.acs.cmu.edu (in the Archives directory) etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Quanta, 3003 Van Ness St. NW #S919, Washington, DC 20008, USA CompuServe: "Zines from the Net" area of the EFF forum (accessed by typing GO EFFSIG) Random Access Humor -- The Electronic Humor Magazine "A rag-tag collection of fugitive humor, some of which is vaguely related to the BBS/Online System world." Editor(s): Dave Bealer Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Humor/RAH Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Humor/RAH Postal: Random Access Humor, c/o Dave Bealer, P.O. Box 595, Pasadena, MD 21122, USA Other: The Puffin's Nest BBS (FidoNet: 1:261/1129, +1 410 437-3463, 1200-14400/V.32bis) SCRATCH "One of the things that kept me from doing something sooner was the idea that you sort of had to have a focus to do a proper zine. I got over it. I found a new desire and enjoyment in rambling about whatever seems appropriate at the time. So here we are." Editor(s): James Barnett Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Scratch Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: J. Barnett, 28 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10805, USA Scream Baby "What do I want? Besides world peace, a sexy Mexican maid, and someone to use their fucking brains around here, I want a really good all-encompassing-sub-culture zine. Music, literature, art, television, film, weird space-time kinks, events, information, news, humor, interviews, and re:views of 'Stuff I Think Is Cool.' Not all at once, of course. Each issue of Scream Baby will come out whenever I can scrape together 25-30 kilobytes of really good stuff." Editor(s): Blade X Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/CyberPunk/ScreamBaby ftp.eff.org:/pub/journals/ScreamBaby Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Cyberlicious , POB 4510, Austin, TX 78765, USA Other: WWIV: 46@5285 Tejas BBS (+1 512 467-0663) (16.8 HST modem) Screams of Abel "SOAE is published weekly giving you the latest in brutal music, from heavy gothic metal to grindcore to hardcore and even some... ick.. pop metal. But that won't be much, I assure you.. :-)." Editor(s): Phil Powell Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Screams.of.Abel Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Usenet: alt.zines Other: FIDONET: CCM Conference WWIVNET: CCM conference from node @7313 TapRoot Reviews Electronic Edition "Short reviews of micropress poetry, experimental literature and art -- 100+ reviews per issue." Editor(s): Luigi-Bob Drake Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Taproot Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Burning Press, PO Box 585, Lakewood, OH 44107, USA Taylorology "TAYLOROLOGY is a newsletter focusing on the life and death of William Desmond Taylor, a top film Paramount film director in early Hollywood who was shot to death on February 1, 1922. His unsolved murder was one of Hollywood's major scandals. This newsletter will deal with: (a) The facts of Taylor's life; (b) The facts and rumors of Taylor's murder; (c) The impact of the Taylor murder on Hollywood and the nation. Primary emphasis will be given toward reprinting, referencing and analyzing source material, and sifting it for accuracy." Editor(s): Bruce Long Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Taylorology Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu The Undiscovered Country "the undiscovered country is a netzine put out by myself and my coeditor, l.b. noire. it is the latest flatulence from our brains regarding life/art/literature/cyberspace/philosophy/etc. it's a large enchiladaesque bunch of stuff." Editor(s): s.r. prozak & l.b. noire Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/The_Undiscovered_Country Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Unit Circle Magazine "An eclectic quarterly magazine of art, poetry, prose, music and politics." Editor(s): Kevin Goldsmith Format: Postscript FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/UnitCircle sgi.com:/pub/UnitCircle* Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Unit Circle, PO Box 640 885, San Francisco, CA 94164, USA Unplastic News "the odd e-mail magazine w/a fever" Editor(s): Format: ASCII text FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/cud/misc/journals etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Unplastic_News quartz.rutgers.edu:pub/journals Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us etext.archive.umich.edu Voices from the Net "There are a lot of folks with at least one foot in this complex region we call (much too simply) "the net." There are a lot of voices on these wires. From IRC to listservs, MUDspace to e-mail, Usenet group to commercial bbs -- all kinds of voices -- loud and quiet, anonymous and well-known. And yet, it's far from clear what it might mean to be a "voice" from, or on, the net. Enter "Voices from the Net": one attempt to sample, explore, the possibilities (or perils) of net.voices. Worrying away at the question. Running down the meme. Looking/listening, and reporting back to you." Editor(s): Bookish CountZer0 NEURO Format: Macintosh HyperCard stack ASCII text FTP: aql.gatech.edu:/pub/Zines/Voices_from_the_Net etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Voices (ASCII text only) wiretap.spies.com:/Library/Zines (ASCII text only) sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/recent (HyperCard stack only) Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu E-Mail: Voices-request@andy.bgsu.edu to subscribe: subject: Voices from the Net body: subscribe We Magazine poetry Editor(s): Stephen Cope, James Garrison, Angela Coon, Eric Curkendall, Jay Curkendall, Roddy Potter, Chris Funkhouser, Belle Gironda, Ben Henry, Katie Yates Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/We_Magazine Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: We Press, Postoffice Box 1503 Santa Cruz, CA 95061, USA Whole Earth Review "We are dedicated to demystification, to self-teaching, and to encouraging people to think for themselves. Thus our motto: 'ACCESS TO TOOLS AND IDEAS.' Tools in the Whole Earth sense include hammers, books, and computer conferencing systems. Our readers are a community of tool-users who share information with one another. The ideas we make accessible have not often been found in university courses, but are becoming recognized as part of what you need to know to be truly educated. Our readers contribute to the editorial content as well, with both reviews and articles." Editor(s): Format: ASCII text Macintosh PageMaker 4.2 files Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us Postal: Whole Earth Review, 27 Gate Five Road, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA Phone: +1 415 332 1716 (voice), +1 415 332 3110 (fax) NOTE: e-text of WER is currently available *only* via gopher; do not e-mail requests for issues Xenocide music Editor(s): Jon Konrath Format: ASCII text FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Music/Xenocide Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu Postal: Xenocide, c/o Jon Konrath, 414 S. 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