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"He was the most important scholar of privacy since Louis Brandeis."âJeffrey Rosen
In defining privacy as âthe claim of individualsâŠto determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated,â Alan Westinâs 1967 classic Privacy and Freedom laid the philosophical groundwork for the current debates aboutâŠ
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Westinâs book completely blew me away the first time I read it. I felt like I had discovered a long-lost time capsule containing everything I needed to know about the technological and social changes that created the foundations for surveillance in the United States today.Â
Since Edward Snowden, I tended to think about surveillance in terms of the internet and the National Security Agency. But Westin showed me that surveillance is much broaderâsocially and historicallyâthan the NSAâs surveillance of the internet. Westin provided me with a template for analyzing surveillance.
Westin distinguishes physical surveillance from data surveillance, and he examinesâŠ
From Patrick's list on history surveillance techniques in the USA.
Written in the late-1960s, this is the original study of privacy by perhaps the greatest privacy scholar of the 20th century. Comprehensive and intricately detailed, Westin explores the changes and dangers facing American privacy at a crucial moment in American history. The book made such an impact when published that you canât consider yourself a student of privacy if you havenât read it.Â
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