The known citizen : a history of privacy in modern America /
Every day, Americans make decisions about their privacy, what to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the boundary between one's private affairs and public identity has become a central task of citizenship. How did privacy come to loom so large in American life? Sarah Igo tr...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Technologies of publicity
- Documents of identity
- The porous psyche
- A right to be let alone
- Codes of confidentiality and consent
- The record prison
- The ethic of transparency
- Stories of one's self.