> If anything, we're the first generations growing up with a concept of what privacy really means. This is a kind of historical revisionism that I don't like t

> If anything, we're the first generations growing up with a concept of what privacy really means. This is a kind of historical revisionism that I don't like that inflates the self-importance of the now merely because we don't know how things will turn out in the future. During the founding of the United States, privacy was very much a central issue. In fact, the Third (third!) Amendment to the Constitution was to prevent the invasion of privacy by an armed soldier of the government literally being imposed on a family's residence, and Fourth Amendment protected a person's privacy against unreasonable search and seizure. Yes computers are a novel twist, but to suppose no one back then "really understood what privacy means" I find to be a form of ignorance bordering on historical condescension.