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None of Your Damn Business
Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Hardcover | 30 September 2019 | Edition Number 1
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Every day, Americans surrender their private information to entities claiming to have their best interests in mind. This trade-off has long been taken for granted, but the extent of its nefariousness has recently become much clearer.
As None of Your Damn Business reveals, the problem is not so much that data will be used in ways we don’t want, but rather how willing we have been to have our information used, abused, and sold right back to us. In this startling book, Lawrence Cappello targets moments from the past 130 years of US history when privacy was central to battles over journalistic freedom, national security, surveillance, big data, and reproductive rights. As he makes dismayingly clear, Americans have had numerous opportunities to protect the public good while simultaneously safeguarding our information, and we’ve squandered them every time.
None of Your Damn Business is a rich and provocative survey of an alarming topic that grows only more relevant with each fresh outrage of trust betrayed.
About the Author
Lawrence Cappello is assistant professor of US constitutional history at the University of Alabama. He received his PhD from the City University of New York.
Industry Reviews
"A thorough account of privacy struggles that draws on deep research to reveal that the privacy dilemma dates back more than a century and has roiled American life through two world wars, the New Deal, the Cold War, and the post 9/11 era. . . . None of Your Damn Business provides excellent background information for citizens concerned with the erosion of privacy rights, as well as for government officials and legal professionals positioned to act upon privacy laws that protect citizens while providing necessary oversight."-- "Foreword Reviews"
"Tracing a century of debates on topics from national security to reproductive rights, None of Your Damn Business offers a lively, instructive account of Americans' ambivalent (and often muddled) thinking about privacy."--Sarah Igo "author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America"
ISBN: 9780226557748
ISBN-10: 022655774X
Published: 30th September 2019
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 22.85 x 15.9 x 2.46
Weight (kg): 0.63
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