The End of Privacy: The Attack on Personal Rights at Home, at Work, On-Line, and in CourtAs Justice Louis Brandeis suggested more than a century ago, privacy--the right to be left alone--is the most valued, if not the most celebrated, right enjoyed by Americans. But in the face of computer, video, and audio technology, aggressive and sophisticated marketing databases, state and federal "wars" against crime and terrorism, new laws governing personal behavior, and an increasingly intrusive media, all of us find our personal space and freedom under attack. |
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... citizen now experiences the loss of privacy once reserved for the famous and infamous . Questions of privacy touch us in nearly every aspect of our lives , from our relationships with our doctors , to our ability to 4 THE END OF PRIVACY.
... citizens to keep their own . Law - enforcement and intelligence agencies want to deny the rest of us the ability to en- code our own communications to prevent their easy interception or reading . It is easy to see what it at stake : The ...
... citizens shrinks them . Concentration camps strip humans of their dignity by stripping them of any tiny corner of privacy , where they can be undisturbed or unobserved . At Auschwitz , wrote Primo Levi , “ solitude in a Camp is more ...
... , and private detectives.11 In effect , the ban on releasing infor- mation applied only to private citizens . In an irony that escaped lawmakers , the new law would not have protected Miss Schaeffer , Trapped in the Dataweb 29.
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