
Privacy: Privacy, Please
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson
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Privacy Is a Defendant of the American Dream
Reverend runkle was awarded damages plus cost, a cash payout of exactly eight dollars. It asserted a legal right to privacy more than a hundred years before that right was actually enshrined in american law. Some of the earliest battles over privacy were directed at the postal system and the right to send correspondence through the mail without its being read by any one else.
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