George Eastman marketed the first mass-produced camera in 1888—and sensationalist stories about “kodak fiends driving the world mad” quickly became a staple source of indignation for civic-minded readers of the New York Times and the Boston Daily Globe. It marked the beginning of a decidedly modern moral panic over “the right to privacy” that would provoke Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis to pen their influential article for the Harvard Law Review, and which would see the first in a string of civil suits brought for the unauthorized distribution of an image.
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