David Vincent, I Hope I Don’t Intrude: Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2015)
Account of the popular 1825 play Paul Pry “resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres.”
Clare Sullivan, Digital Identity (2011)
Australian scholar Clare Sullivan explores the rise of “digital identity,” which is used for engaging in various transactions. Instead of arguing against systematized identification, she sees the future as heading inevitably in that direction and proposes a robust set of rights individuals should have over such identities. This is a thoughtful and pragmatic book, with…