Privacy & American Business is a unique publication that addresses business-privacy and data protection issues in the U.S. and global marketplaces from a business-friendly, privacy-sensitive perspective. It explores emerging technologies and their impacts on key information and data protection issues across the privacy spectrum and across industry lines — financial services, credit, credit reporting, human resources, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, insurance, direct marketing, travel health/medicine, online, and database service.
P&AB is published monthly, with periodic double issues or special issues in a 20-28 page illustrated format. We have a controlled circulation of approximately 3,500 subscribers, comprised of government regulators, business leaders, libraries, and academics interested in privacy and public policy. The contents of past P&AB issues are listed below with links to selected articles.
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P&AB Issues
1999
Volume 6, Number 4
Privacy Blooms in the Spring of '99
"Freebies" and Privacy: What Net Users Think
P&AB 's Model Contract Gets the Green Light in Frankfurt
P&AB To Move Forward With EU/HR Data Consortium
Volume 6, Number 3
Privacy Legislation and the 106th Congress
HR Data & the EU Directive: Meeting the Challenge in Global Organizations
Volume 6, Number 2
5th Annual P&AB Conference Overview
The U.S. Privacy Scene in 1998
A Privacy Agenda For the New Millenium:What lies ahead?
Once Company's Experience on the Privacy Frontier
Has Business Accepted the Self-regulation Challenge?
E-Commerce and Privacy
U.S. Companies & Privacy in Global Arenas
Volume 6, Number 1
P&AB Survey Overview
Consumer Privacy Experiences & Preferences
Use of Personal Information by Telephone Companies
Importance of Local Telephone Company Privacy Policies
1998
Volume 5, Number 3
Privacy Legislation in the States
Online and Internet Services
Health and Insurance
Telecommunications and Direct Marketing
Financial Services
Public Records
Volume 5, Number 2
Government and Industry Wrestle Over Industry Self-Regulation
New Privacy Survey Focuses on what Net Users Want
Models Project Update
Website Update
Volume 5, Number 1
Second Session of 105th Congress
New Online Privacy Survey Confirms 1997 P&AB Findings
PrivacyExchange Update
Legislative Round-Up
New Project Draws on Contractual Approaches to Meet EU Privacy and Data Protection Mandates.
1997
Volume 4, Number 5
Conference Overview (Special Issue)
Privacy Year in Review
Highlights of Chairman Robert Pitofsky's Speech.
Database Privacy Plan Unveiled.
Mock Senate Hearing on Self-Regulation.
Contractual Assurance for Transborder Data Flow.
Biometrick Identifiers: Privacy Opportunity and Problems.
Volume 4, Number 4
Washington Privacy Activity
New Global Website
Anne Branscomb
Volume 4, Number 3
Internet Privacy Survey (Special Issue)
Portrait of Net Users vs General Public
Children's Privacy Online.
Online Survey Makes Business Case for Privacy.
Self Regulation Challenges Industry.
P&AB's Benchmark Survey Confirms Perceptions.
Volume 4, Number 2
Unprecedented Privacy Activity in Washington (Special Issue)
Clinton Speech
Survey Trends Underpin Privacy Activity.
Global Privacy Developments
FTC Activity
ANSI Ponders Privacy Rule
Volume 4, Number 1
State Trend Lines 1996-1997 (Special Issue)
Privacy Profile: Loretta Weinberg
The 105th Congress Begins Early work on Privacy
The States and Consumer Privacy: Sector Reports
1996
Volume 3, Number 5
1996 Conference Report: An Overview (Special Issue)
Washington Report
Consumer Privacy in the Information Age, by Christine Varney.
Letter from the Senate.
Br¸han Offers European Wish List.
CBA Best Practices Guidelines
Volume 3, Number 4
104th Congress Sets Strong Privacy Record.
U.S. Public Opposes Federal Regulatory Agency.
Finger Imaging Survey: Charts Acceptance.
International Privacy Conference: One American's View.
Privacy and Direct Marketing.
Privacy Profile: Leslie L.Byrne.
Volume 3, Number 3
Court Make Privacy News - and Law.
Washington Report.
Electronic Money and EU Directive.
Confidentiality and Group Therapy.
Global Project Opens Dialogue.
Privacy Profile: Steven Kroll.
Volume 3, Number 2
Credit Card Holders, Banks and Privacy
Telecom Law Prompts Privacy Outcry.
Privacy Talk on the Net
Clinton Administration Considers New Privacy Protection Office
Privacy Profile: Rep. Steven Chabot.
Volume 3, Number 1
Managing the Privacy Revolution '95 (Special Issue)
Washington Report.
1995
Volume 2, Number 3
FTC's New Privacy Initiative
Washington Report
P&AB's Survey Report: How the Public Ranks Privacy as a Consumer Issue
In Depth: The World Wide Privacy Frontier
Innovative Policies Case File: Trans Union.
Volume 2, Number 2
Internet Regulation Battles Could Impact Privacy
Washington Report.
P&AB's Survey Report : Public Skeptical About Government Enforcement of Privacy Laws.
In Depth: Equifax's Health Information Privacy Principles.
Using Medical Information for Database Marketing.
Special Issue
The States and Consumer Privacy
Privacy Laws - State or Federal?
The November Elections and the State Scene
Sector Reports:
Financial Services
Direct Marketing
Medical & Health Record
Life, Health & Property Insurance
Volume 2, Number 1
Privacy - Where is the Administration Headed?
Washington Report.
Privacy Profile: Senator Christopher Bond.
In Depth: Interactive Services.
Payment Services, Privacy and MasterCard.
Privacy in the New Age of Information Services.
1994
Volume 1, Number 5
Democratic Defeat Reshapes Congressional Privacy Agenda.
November Elections, Public Opinions, and Privacy.
How Exxon Valdez Changed Employee Relations.
In Depth: P&AB's First Annual Conference.
Volume 1, Number 4
At Midyear..103rd Congress Set to Enact Privacy Legislation.
New Survey on how Public Views Sensitivity of Personal Records.
From the Business Press: How Nonprofit Groups Should Handle Privacy.
Privacy Guidelines For the "New' Direct Marketer.
Supreme Court Reaffirms Privacy Interest in Public Record Information.
Privacy Profile: Mary Gardiner Jones
Special Issue
Work Monitoring, Privacy and Fairness.
Survey Report: The Public Supports Fair Monitoring Practices.
The Legal Status of Work Monitoring
A Conversation with Lewis Maltby
Corporate Reports: Citicorp, Household Finance, MCI.
Key References on Work Monitoring
Volume 1, Number 2
Washington Ponders Health Privacy Reform.
Privacy Poses Test for IVHS Industry.
Toward Fair Information Markets.
Coping With European Data Protection Laws.
In Depth: A Special Section on Medical & Health Privacy.
1993
Volume 1, Number 1
(Inaugural Issue)
Clinton, Privacy, and the Business Agenda.
Privacy and Free Speech in Telemarketing.
In Depth: Strong Privacy Codes Are Good Business.
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