This page (new in November 2008) indexes book reviews and other assorted commentaries.
• Review: The Privacy Advocates: Resisting the Spread
of Surveillance by Colin J. Bennett MIT Press 2008). Bennett's
book includes some case studies of privacy campaigns. An appendix to
the review offers a case study of a 1998 incident involving the National Committee
on Vital and Health Statistics that had a significant effect on the development
of a patient identifier. I was a member of NCVHS and played a role in
the events. The review and appendix are available here.
Posted 11/4/08.