Seek and hide : the tangled history of the right to privacy
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Seek and hide : the tangled history of the right to privacy
Viking, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-357) and index
Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Summary: "The surprising story of the fitful development of the right to privacy-and its battle against the public's right to know--across American history. There is no hotter topic than the desire to constrain tech companies like Facebook from exploiting our personal data, or to keep Alexa from spying on you. Privacy has also provoked constitutional crisis (presidential tax returns) while Justice Clarence Thomas seeks to remove the protection of journalists who publish the truth about public officials. Is privacy under deadly siege, or actually surging? The answer is both, but that's doubly dangerous, as legal expert Amy Gajda proves. Too little privacy means that unwanted exposure by those who deal in and publish secrets. Too much means the famous and infamous can cloak themselves in secrecy and shut down inquiry, and return us to the time before movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo opened eyes to hidden truths. We are not the first generation to grapple with that clash, to worry that new technologi
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- Brandeis's secret
- Hamilton, Jefferson, and the greatest evil
- Love and pictures
- The Warrens make the paper
- Who is Kate Nash?
- The right to privacy
- The right to know
- A different kind of fire
- The law won
- Holmes and Brandeis and the (regulated) marketplace of ideas
- Be decent
- Pandora's Box, the source of every evil
- Bodies and breathing space
- Real chutzpah, real housewives
- Miss Vermont, Judge Mikva, and the Wrestler
- Girls gone wild (privacy in public)
- Kate Nash Redux (privacy in data)
- The right to be forgotten (privacy in the past)
- A president and his tax returns (privacy in politics)
