alt.privacy
Privacy in the information age.
From the crypto wars of the 1990s onward, alt.privacy carried the practical end of the privacy debate: surveillance law, anonymous remailers, PGP for civilians, workplace monitoring, and the slow realisation that databases talk to each other.
Privacy advocacy organisations listed the group as a standing resource for years — the Australian Privacy Foundation’s resource page still does, which is how many readers arrive here.
Reading alt.privacy today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — alt.privacy (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.