Policy
    Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace (May 2000 FTC report)

    Children's Online Privacy Protection Act  

    US v. Microsoft: Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact (99)

    Department of Justice complete filings in Microsoft case

    Green Paper on Internet domain name administration (Jan 98)
    White Paper on Internet domain name administration (June 98)

____Ireland____________________________
Department of Trade and Public Enterprise (dept overseeing most tech policy including encryption and telecommunications)
Irish Gov't E-Commerce discussion site (set up by Irish government)

Director for Telecommunications Regulation (has responsibility for telecommunications and radio regulatory matters)

Enterprise Ireland (formed by merger of Forbairt and Forfas --govt agency promoting science and technology for economic and social development in Ireland)
Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation
Irish Information Society Commission  (committee charged with establishing a framework for an info society in Ireland)
The Industrial Development Authority (IDA -- key govt agency promoting Ireland as a tech industry destination)
The Irish Trade Board

Search of ie Domains
Shannon Development  (agency which has promoted tech investment in Shannon/Limerick area)
Policy
Irish E-Commerce Policy (comprehensive Dept of Public Enterprise links to all policy documents, bills, reports, speeches and more)

Revised E-Commerce Bill (currently in the Dail)

Advisory Committee on Telecommunications report (1998; members included Vint Cerf)

Framework Document on Encryption and Digital Signatures  (1998)
Reshaping the Public Service in the Information Age by Brendan Tuohy
Telecommunications Liberalisation in Ireland

____UK________________________________
CEST: Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology
Data Protection Registrar (overview of UK data protection act)

Foundation for Information Policy Research
Information Society programme office
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology
Technology Policy Research Group (London School of Economics; some good crypto resources)
Policy
Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill

Regulatory Intent Concerning Use of Encryption on Public Networks DTI encryption policy (whoops!! bad idea...)
Revised Statement on Encryption (April 1998) (still a bad idea)

____European Union______________________
ECHO (European Commission Host Organisation -- DGXIII/E)

European Software Institute
Euromethod Electronic Document Distribution Centre
EUR-OP  (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities)
Europa (EU goals and policies)
Europarl (The European Parliament multi-lingual web server)
Eurostat (The Statistical Office of the European Communities)
IDA (Interchange of Data between Administrations)
I*M-Europe (Information Market Europe -- under DGXIII)
ISPO (Information Society Project Office)
OII (Open Information Interchange initiative -- DGXIII/E)
People First (Living and Working in the European Information Society)
Policy
European Union Directive on Data Protection
Towards a European Framework for Digital Signatures and Encryption (EU policy paper, Mar 97)

Tech Issues
____Cryptography_______________________
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
Crypto.com: Encryption Policy Resource Pages
Cryptography and Liberty: an International Survey of Encryption Policy (Feb 1998)
Crypto software ftp site (including Enigma simulators and other fun stuff)
European Cryptography Resources Page
OECD cryptography policy guidelines
RSA's cryptography FAQ (from a leading company in the crypto field)

____Ethics_____________________________
Web Clearinghouse for Engineering and Computing Ethics (exhaustive set of links on all aspects of this subject)

____Free speech________________________
Communications Decency Act archive (EPIC's pages on challenges to the Internet censorship bill)
    Reno v. ACLU (Supreme Court decision striking down the CDA)
European free speech resources (GILC pages)
Free Expression Clearinghouse (comprehensive site of info and links)

____Privacy____________________________
Cypherpunks (informal Berkeley, CA group working on privacy solutions; good archives, discussion list etc)
Nothing Sacred: the Politics of Privacy (report from the Center for Public Integrity [US])
Privacy Protection in a Global Network Society (OECD symposium)
Surfer Beware: Personal Privacy and the Internet (EPIC report)

____Security____________________________
An Analysis Of Security Incidents On The Internet: 1989 - 1995  (report for CERT April 7, 1997)
COAST security links
Speech by FBI director Louis Freeh (to Int'l Computer Crime Conference, NYC, March 1997)

____Spamming__________________________
Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE)
Fight Spam on the Internet!  
Junkbusters (resources for fighting spam, etc)
Junkmail.org
Private Citizen (anti-spam and telemarketers pages)
Yahoo's spam-related resources