American privacy : the 400-year history of our most contested right /

An examination of privacy and the evolution of communication, from broken sealing wax to high-tech wiretapping A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped along colonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and even today's fiber-optic cables, American Privacy traces the lineage of cultural...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lane, Frederick S., 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Privacy, Right of > United States > History.
Government information > United States > History.
Confidential communications > United States > History.
Data protection > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Disclosure of information > Law and legislation > United States.
Electronic surveillance > Government policy > United States.
Eavesdropping > Government policy > United States.
Information sur l'État > États-Unis > Histoire.
Secret professionnel > États-Unis > Histoire.
Surveillance électronique > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Confidential communications
Data protection > Law and legislation
Disclosure of information > Law and legislation
Government information
Privacy, Right of
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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