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Seek and Hide - The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy (Hardcover)
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Seek and Hide - The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy (Hardcover)
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NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022 "Gajda's chronicle
reveals an enduring tension between principles of free speech and
respect for individuals' private lives. ...just the sort of road
map we could use right now."-The Atlantic "Wry and
fascinating...Gajda is a nimble storyteller [and] an insightful
guide to a rich and textured history that gets easily caricatured,
especially when a culture war is raging."-The New York Times An
urgent book for today's privacy wars, and essential reading on how
the courts have--for centuries--often protected privileged men's
rights at the cost of everyone else's. Should everyone have privacy
in their personal lives? Can privacy exist in a public place? Is
there a right to be left alone even in the United States? You may
be startled to realize that the original framers were sensitive to
the importance of privacy interests relating to sexuality and
intimate life, but mostly just for powerful and privileged (and
usually white) men. The battle between an individual's right to
privacy and the public's right to know has been fought for
centuries. The founders demanded privacy for all the wrong
press-quashing reasons. Supreme Court jus tice Louis Brandeis
famously promoted First Amend ment freedoms but argued strongly for
privacy too; and presidents from Thomas Jefferson through Don ald
Trump confidently hid behind privacy despite intense public
interest in their lives. Today privacy seems simultaneously under
siege and surging. And that's doubly dangerous, as legal expert Amy
Gajda argues. Too little privacy leaves ordinary people vulnerable
to those who deal in and publish soul-crushing secrets. Too much
means the famous and infamous can cloak themselves in secrecy and
dodge accountability. Seek and Hide carries us from the very start,
when privacy concepts first entered American law and society, to
now, when the law al lows a Silicon Valley titan to destroy a media
site like Gawker out of spite. Muckraker Upton Sinclair, like
Nellie Bly before him, pushed the envelope of privacy and propriety
and then became a privacy advocate when journalists used the same
techniques against him. By the early 2000s we were on our way to
today's full-blown crisis in the digital age, worrying that
smartphones, webcams, basement publishers, and the forever internet
had erased the right to privacy completely.
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