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McTyeire Fireside Chat: Does Privacy Have a History?

Posted by on Monday, February 11, 2019 in Archives, News.

Thursday, February 21
7-8 p.m.
McTyeire International House, Fireside Lounge

Why and when did arguments about privacy become central to American public life?  Join history professor Sarah Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (2018) for a firside chat that will take us from concerns about “instantaneous photography” in the late nineteenth century all the way to our present dilemmas around social media and big data.

Contact: anja.bandas@vanderbilt.edu
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