This time is not different
Life Magazine, May 20, 1966 
Scientific American, May 1973
Financial Times, February 12, 1996 archive.org/stream/Financi…
San Jose Mercury News, February 13, 1996 “Web ‘Cookies’ May be Spying on You.” No link or image available :(
TIME Magazine, Aug. 25, 1997
Privacy Online: A Report to Congress, FTC, June 1998 ftc.gov/sites/default/…
New York Times, June 28, 1998, "Internet is New Pet Issue in Congress" nytimes.com/1998/06/28/us/…
New York Times, September 4, 2001 - September 6, 2001, Online Privacy Series law.upenn.edu/fac/pwagner/la…
INTERNET SECURITY AND PRIVACY, Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 25, 2000, loc.gov/law/find/heari…
Reason Magazine, June 2004
Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2010, "The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets" wsj.com/articles/SB100…
Internet Privacy: Overview and Legislation in the 109th Congress, January 26, 2006 au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate…
AdAge, May 6, 2011 "Sen. Rockefeller: Get Ready for a Real Do-Not-Track Bill for Online Advertising" adage.com/article/digita…
I believe in privacy: I co-founded a company (Root Markets) and spent several years trying to protect personal data while still allowing smaller businesses to effectively find customers online
But I'm cynical that this all now is anything more than bread and circuses, as it has always been in the past
And also reactionwheel.net/2010/08/monday…
"Privacy, it seems, is not simply dead. It is dying over and over and over again. It would be a mistake to imagine that this pattern is somehow unique to the late 1990s and early 2000s." - Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America, Deborah Nelson, p. xi. amzn.to/2GP4h7U
