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American privacy : the 400-year history of our most contested right
Title:
American privacy : the 400-year history of our most contested right
Author:
Lane, Frederick S., 1963-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Beacon Press, [2009]

©2009
Physical Description:
xx, 282 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The declaration of privacy -- Postal politics, purity, and privacy -- Population, punch cards, and privacy -- Privacy in state courts and legislatures -- No more gentlemen: the rise of governmental espionage -- The peeping toms of public life -- The great red threats to privacy: credit cards and communism -- Privacy's golden hour: the Warren Court -- "Toward freedom from fear": the privacy versus security debate intensifies -- The phantom delete key: the incredible durability of data -- No pc is an island: the rise of online communities -- Electronic exhibitionism and voyeurism:privacy in a webbed world.
ISBN:
9780807044414

9780807006191
Format :
Book