Five top books on the right to privacy

Jeffrey Rosen is the president and chief executive of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and a law professor at George Washington University. He is legal affairs editor of The New Republic, and co-editor (with Benjamin Wittes) of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change.

Prefacing his Washington Post list of five favorite books on privacy, Rosen recommends first reading "the best article on privacy ever written: Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s 'The Right to Privacy,' first published in the Harvard Law Review in 1890 and available online."

One of Rosen's top books on the right to privacy:

UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY by Daniel J. Solove (2008).

In the tradition of [Alan F. Westin's Privacy and Freedom (1967)], Solove offers an influential new taxonomy of privacy for the Internet Age: information collection, processing, dissemination and invasion.

Read about another book on Rosen's list.

The Page 99 Test: Daniel J. Solove's Understanding Privacy.

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