Civil Liberties | The Threat to Privacy Is Exaggerated

About the author: Michael Lind is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a nonprofit public policy institute, and the coauthor of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics.

In a remarkably short period of time, “privacy” has moved from the margins to the center of political debate in the United States, Canada and Europe. The nebulous concept today embraces a number of issues, ranging from the serious— the possible abuse of the results of genetic testing by corporations and the government—to the trivial—the sharing of information about consumer...

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