Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life

"Don’t let the page count worry you; Tiffany Jenkins is a confident guide through several centuries of social upheaval, tracing developing concepts of personal privacy: freedom from surveillance, autonomy in work, the personhood to participate in public life. (Many specifics feel timeless; early Kodak ads touted “the thrill of capturing the likeness of a person without their knowledge.”) The scope of this history is impressive, and at a time when every app wants your location, concerning. A remarkable chronicle of the ways people have fought for our personhood and privacy – and what we stand to lose when those are gone."