| Privacy and Freedom was originally published in 1967. Through his work–notably his book “Privacy and Freedom,”–Alan Westin was considered to have created the modern field of privacy law. This is a foundational work in the evolution of modern privacy law, and should appeal to academics, legal scholars and lay people alike. Can be compared to other best-selling foundational texts published by Ig, such as Bernay’s Propaganda and Packard’s Hidden Persuaders. Blurb to come from Jeffrey Rosen, president of the National Constitution Center and author of The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America and The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age. Introduction from Daniel Solove, Professor of Law at George Washington University and author of NOTHING TO HIDE: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security Book will feature a brand new introduction written by Westin just before his death in 2013. The Washington Post in 2013 called it “The best book on privacy written in the late 20th century. Westin identifies four states of privacy: solitude, intimacy, reserve and anonymity….the book inspired many of the privacy reforms of the 1970s and 1980s–such as those championed by the Church Commission and enacted in the Foreign Intelligence Act …” He was the most important scholar of privacy since Louis Brandeis.”‘Jeffrey Rosen In defining privacy as “the claim of individuals’to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated,” Alan Westin’s 1967 classic Privacy and Freedom laid the philosophical groundwork for the current debates about technology and personal freedom, and is considered a foundational text in the field of privacy law. By arguing that citizens retained control over how their personal data was used, Westin redefined privacy as an individual freedom, taking Justice Louis Brandeis’ 19th century definition of privacy as a legal right and expanding it for use in modern times. Westin’s ideas transformed the meaning of privacy, leading to a spate of privacy laws in the 1970s, as well as prefiguring the arguments over privacy that have come to dominate the internet era. This all new edition of Privacy and Freedom features an introduction by Daniel J. Solove, John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. |
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