Perspective
Jul. 12, 2013
Responding to those who declare privacy is dead
Every decade or so, someone declares that privacy is dead. And the recent NSA disclosures have brought a resurgence of hand-wringing over the "death of privacy." By Christopher Wolf
Every decade or so, someone declares that privacy is dead.
In 1999, the former CEO of the former Sun Microsystems, Scott McNealy famously said, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." There have been countless books and law review articles referencing privacy as under siege, lost, dying and dead. University of Chicago Professor Deborah Nelson has noted that, "Privacy, it seems, is not simply dead. It is dying ove...
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