Databanks in a Free Society: Computers, Record-Keeping and Privacy

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Decades before the internet, scholars were already asking who should control information. This 1972 National Academy of Sciences report is an early cornerstone in the history of digital privacy, surveillance, and computerized record-keeping—a remarkably prescient artifact from the dawn of the information age.

Decades before the internet, scholars were already asking who should control information. This 1972 National Academy of Sciences report is an early cornerstone in the history of digital privacy, surveillance, and computerized record-keeping—a remarkably prescient artifact from the dawn of the information age.