The Naked Society: A Century of Invasions Into Privacy

Recent data breaches in the United States – from the Equifax scandal, which compromised some 143 million individuals' financial information, to the unauthorized use of Facebook user data by shady political operatives at Cambridge Analytica – have provoked outrage. Yet they have so far produced little else. In the weeks after the Equifax breach there was a deluge of denunciations and policy proposals. A year later, there is not even a trickle. The scandal, like so many others, has been banished to yesterday's news.