Privacy: Studies in Social and Cultural History.

By Katherine Day, Barrington. Moore. 1985

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Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (2023, background): “Privacy can protect both powerful and vulnerable peoples and is interpreted and protected differently by culture and social classes throughout history [152].”
Privacy and human behavior in the age of information (2015, background): “Norms and behaviors regarding private and public realms greatly differ across cultures (85).”
Secrets and Likes: The Drive for Privacy and the Difficulty of Achieving It in the Digital Age (2020, background): “However, the evidence of “privacy”-seeking behaviors across cultures and historical periods is ample (Moore, 1984; Murphy, 1964).”
Privacy in the Internet of Things: threats and challenges (2014, background): “Similarly, the notion of personal information is necessarily fuzzy, since privacy is a deeply social concept and subject to greatly varying individual perception and requirements [14, 15].”
An Alternative View of Privacy on Facebook (2011, background): “Barrington Moore (1984 [36]) argues, based on anthropological and historical analyses of privacy, that it is not an anthropological need “like the need for air, sleep, or nourishment” (Moore 1984 [36], p.”