LEGI-SLATE News Service staff
Updated April 24, 1998

Founded in March 1998, Americans for Computer Privacy is a broad-based coalition of 28 trade associations and 70 diverse companies. It advocates privacy protections of Americans' communications in the information age.

ACP's advisory panel boasts of several prominent figures. Among them are: former defense secretary and former CIA director John Deutch; Abner Mikva, former chief justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and a former Democratic congressman from Illinois; former National Security advisor Richard Allen; and Philip Zimmermann, founder of Pretty Good Privacy, Inc., and creator of the PGP e-mail encryption software.

Send e-mail to ACP at webmaster@computerprivacy.org.