Series 3: Early Years of PRC

Contents:

• PRC history and bio of founder, now executive director emeritus Beth Givens
• Funding sources, 2011-April 2018; cy PRCs class action settlements, PRC's main source of funding.
• 2 annual reports from first 2 years; no more annual reports were written.
• Set of Fact Sheets (paper) from 1992 through 1998, in English and Spanish.
• California merchant info-gathering law - what a retailer can require/request when you pay with check & by credit card. Wallet card for shoppers, large bright yellow info card for merchants
• Fact Sheet order forms, 1992-2000, showing increase in number of guides.
• Privacy Rights Handbook, by Beth Givens (1997).
• San Diego Union Tribune, privacy supplement featuring PRC Sept. 30,1997.
• San Diego Reader, cover story on PRC, Sept. 11, 1997.
• Joint UCAN/PRC educational guides.
• UCAN/PRC progress reports, 1996-1999.
• Lifetime movie, "Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story" (2004).
• Brochures developed by California state legislators, using content from the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
• "Privacy ...in the Information Age": First major conference on privacy in Calif, Nov. 16, 1992.
• "Privacy Piracy: A Guide to Protecting Yourself from Identity Theft" by Mari Frank and Beth Givens (1999).
• Photos of hotline room at Univ. of San Diego Center for Public Interest Law in the early days of the PRC, 1992-1996.
• Fundraising materials ~1993-1995
• Misc. flyers and publications, early years.
• News and Magazine articles, 1992-2009
• Documents regarding the establishment of Identity Theft Resource Center in 1999 (initially VOICES) by Linda Goldman Foley
• Google Gmail controversy
• Privacy Advocates Conference, May 15-16, 2009, hosted by PRC in San Diego.
• VHS video. PRCsentation by Beth Givens, 1992, to Bagong Bukas, Filipino group
• 25<emph render='super'>th</emph> Anniversary of Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Sept. 14, 2017