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February 27, 2013

Alan F. Westin Died

Obituary here. His 1967 book, Privacy and Freedom, almost single-handedly created modern privacy law.

Tags: laws, privacy

Posted on February 27, 2013 at 1:26 PM • 3 Comments

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dbCooper • February 27, 2013 2:34 PM

With this ruling modern privacy law has taken a big step backwards in my opinion.

"Supreme Court Effectively Says There's No Way To Challenge Warrantless Wiretapping"

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130226/...

Terry Cloth • February 27, 2013 5:26 PM

The link supplied is paywalled (at least to me). The Washington Post's obit (w/_lots_ of whitespace before the text) is at

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-19/...

I checked a couple of other versions and they all seem to be the same text with minor tweaks (paragraphs reordered, `Mr.' vs. `Dr.', &c.

Terry Cloth • February 27, 2013 5:29 PM

[Correction to my previous post] ``Paywalled'' may be inaccurate---it asks you to log in. Perhaps it doesn't take cash, but the process more than I want to bother with.

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