Privacy and Freedom

Privacy and Freedom is a foundational work of legal theory by the US professor Alan Westin first published in 1967 that defined the need for information privacy against a growing context of issues raised by computing power and data. Cybersecurity and privacy professor Peter Swire wrote that even the title of the work itself helped to define the privacy field.^[1] Decades after its initial publication, Privacy and Freedom was still considered a "canonical" text.^[2] According to privacy scholar Daniel J. Solove in 2015, "Privacy and Freedom remains one of the most comprehensive and electrifying accounts of the concept and value of privacy yet written."^[3]