Aadhaar made me wonder whether we are, once again, at one of those crossroads in the evolution of privacy jurisprudence where there is a need to re-examine the laws that currently govern us to see if there might be another, smarter way to protect our personal privacy. To do this I felt I needed to better understand the origins of our current notions of privacy – to see if there is something in its past that will inform its future. This book is the product of that research. It attempts to provide some explanation for how we have come to our current notions of personal space and individual
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