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Welcome to the RU / TNO privacy wiki. The purpose of this wiki is to collect the main resources that contain more information on privacy.

Contents

• Introduction on what is privacy, and why it is important.
• Legal background on how law protects (and erodes!) privacy.
• Technical background on how technical advances break and make privacy.
• Societal background on how society percieves and deals with privacy.
• Privacy by design including Privacy design strategies and Privacy design patterns.
• Protecting your privacy contains practical suggestions to protect your own privacy.
• Who knows what An overview of data owned, processed and or stored by companies or goverment.
• Resources contains pointers other information resources, like websites, privacy and civil liberty organisations.
• References contains a collection of the most important privacy books and papers.