ABSTRACT

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.

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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
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* 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
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* 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
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* We Magazine: new zine
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The Amateur Computerist

Editor(s): Ronda Hauben <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
Michael Hauben <[email protected]>
Format: ASCII text
FTP: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/doc/misc/acn
E-Mail: <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Format: ASCII text
FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Politics/Arm.the.Spirit
Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu
E-Mail: [email protected], 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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): <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Format: ASCII text
FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu
Gopher: gopher.cic.net
etext.archive.umich.edu
E-Mail: [email protected]
with text body: "SUBSCRIBE CTHEORY <full-name>"

Cyberspace Vanguard
"News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Universe"

Editor(s): TJ Goldstein <[email protected]>
Sarah Alexander, Administrator <[email protected]>
Format: ASCII text
FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Cyberspace.Vanguard
Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu
E-Mail: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> (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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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): <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Geoff Duncan <[email protected]> (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): <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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): <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Bitnet: [email protected]
Mikael Cardell <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Doc Simpson <[email protected]>
Format: ASCII text
E-Mail: <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <tm>, 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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): <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
CountZer0 <[email protected]>
NEURO <[email protected]>
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: [email protected]
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 <[email protected]>
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): <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
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. Mitchell Suite 13,
Bloomington, IN 47401, USA

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