✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading
Privacy in an Age of Publicity | The New Yorker
newyorker.com · 3,938 words · saved by 1 readers
Jill Lepore on the history of privacy.
Save this story Save this story An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring of 1844, when Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian exile in London, became convinced that the British government was opening his mail. Mazzini, a revolutionary who’d been thrown in jail in Genoa, imprisoned in Savona, sentenced to death in absentia, and arrested in Paris, was plotting the unification of the kingdoms of Italy and the founding of an Italian republic. He suspected that, in London, he’d been the victim of what he called “post-office espionage”: he believed that the Home Secretary, Sir James Gra
Explore this link on the map →related reading
- What Is Privacy For? | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- A Cypherpunk's Manifestoactivism.net
- Privacy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)plato.stanford.edu
- https://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.htmlphilzimmermann.com
- Warren and Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy"groups.csail.mit.edu
- State secrecy, not misinformation, is killing American democracy - The New Atlantisthenewatlantis.com
- Moxie Marlinspike Has a Plan to Reclaim Our Privacy | The New Yorkernewyorker.com
- moral-fn.pdfweb.cs.ucdavis.edu
- cdn.nakamotoinstitute.org/docs/cypherpunk-manifesto.txtcdn.nakamotoinstitute.org
- The Transparent Society | WIREDwired.com
- footnotes to "The Right to Privacy"groups.csail.mit.edu
- Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy | The New Yorkernewyorker.com