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Privacy, Ideology, And Technology: A Response To Jeffrey Rosen, Julie E. Cohen
Privacy, Ideology, And Technology: A Response To Jeffrey Rosen, Julie E. Cohen
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay reviews Jeffrey Rosen’s The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2000).
Rosen offers a compelling (and often hair-raising) account of the pervasive dissolution of the boundary between public and private information. This dissolution is both legal and social; neither the law nor any other social institution seems to recognize many limits on the sorts of information that can be subjected to public scrutiny. The book also provides a rich, evocative characterization of the dignitary harms caused by privacy invasion. Rosen’s description of the sheer unfairness of being “judged out of context” rings instantly true. Privacy, Rosen …
Privacy And Power, Rosa Brooks
Privacy And Power, Rosa Brooks
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Something has gone wrong in modem America, argues Jeffrey Rosen in The Unwanted Gaze. Our medical records are bought and sold by health care providers, drug companies, and the insurance industry. Our e-mails are intercepted and read by our employers. Amazon.com knows everything there is to know about our reading and web-browsing habits. Poor Monica Lewinsky's draft love letters to President Bill Clinton were seized by the villainous Ken Starr, and ultimately plastered all over the nation's newspapers.
To Rosen, the nature of the problem is clear: These examples are all part of a troubling "phenomenon that affects all …