Alan F. Westin, Who Transformed Privacy Debate Before the Web Era, Dies at 83 - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/alan-f-westin-scholar-who-defined-right-to-privacy-dies-at-83.html
Through his work — notably his book “Privacy and Freedom,” published in 1967 and still a canonical text — Mr. Westin was considered to have created, almost single-handedly, the modern field of #privacy_law. He testified frequently on the subject before Congress, spoke about it on television and radio and wrote about it for newspapers and magazines.
His argument prefigured the current national debate about privacy engendered by post-9/11 legislation like the Patriot Act, which Mr. Westin, in a 2003 interview, called “a justified piece of legislation.”