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1. Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ (dredmorbius@toot.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 10:57:39 JST Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

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   The book also begins with a definition of privacy that's remarkably similar to the one I'd independently arrived at.

   Westin:

   Privacy is the claim of individuals, groups, or institution s to determine for temselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others.

   My own:

   Privacy is the ability to define and defend boundaries on disclosure of information pertaining to oneself.

   Both have the notion of limits, control, and autonomy over information. And I like to think that this suggests I'm on a productive track myself.

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   • Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​ (dredmorbius@toot.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 10:57:46 JST Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

     Alan F. Westin's Privacy and Freedom --- ridiculously rich acknowledgements

     So ... I'd turned up Westin's 1963 classic by way of Groklaw[1], and was reading the Acknowledgements in depth As One Does, and ... just had to boggle for a while.

     https://archive.org/details/privacyfreedom00west/page/n19/mode/2up

     The first name I clearly recognised was J. Robert Oppenheimer (lead the Manhattan Project). Then Paul Baran (co-inventer of packet-based switching, a/k/a The Internet), Ben H. Bagdikian (journalist and media commentator), Paul Schrade (union leader), and Robert K. Merton (sociologist), Harold D. Lasswell (communications).

     I'm sure there are numerous others whose names and rields I'm not familiar with. But it's a remarkable collection of collaborators and contributors.

     Notes:

     1. The work is named in Groklaw's final post on forced disclosure (the explanation and rationale for Groklaw itself shutting down, ten years ago this coming August): http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175

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     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.