Alan F. Westin Died
Obituary here. His 1967 book, Privacy and Freedom, almost single-handedly created modern privacy law.
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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/national/37178039_1_privacy-concerns-alan-f-westin-scholar
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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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/20130226/14360422120/supreme-court-effectively-says-theres-no-way-to-challenge-warrantless-wiretapping.shtml