Background
Westin, Alan Furman was born on November 11, 1929 in New York City. Son of Irving and Etta (Furman) Westin.
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This detailed and well written history covers such issues as how social and political matters are fashioned into legal battles, the various stages a case goes through on its way to the Supreme Court, how constitutional principles are affected by the strategies of the opposing sides, how politics influences a case as it is in progress, and methods and guidelines used by the Surpreme Court when analyzing and resolving issues that come before it. Westin includes selections from transcripts, briefs and other official proceedings, adds notes describing each phase of hte constitutional process, a nd a sction of commentary and questions relating this case to others.
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"He was the most important scholar of privacy since Louis Brandeis."—Jeffrey Rosen "No work about privacy had done such a thorough job . . . in elucidating the meaning and importance of privacy."—Daniel Solove In defining privacy as "the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated," Privacy and Freedom (1967) laid the philosophical groundwork for current debates about technology and personal freedom, and is considered a foundational text in the field of privacy law. Alan Westin (1929–2013) was a professor of public law and government at Columbia University for almost forty years. Through his work—notably his book Privacy and Freedom—Westin is considered to have created, almost single-handedly, the modern field of privacy law.
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Westin, Alan Furman was born on November 11, 1929 in New York City. Son of Irving and Etta (Furman) Westin.
Bachelor, University Florida, 1948. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965.
Senior fellow Yale University Law School, New Haven, 1956-1957, visiting professor political science, 1960-1961. Assistant professor government Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1957-1959. Associate professor public law and government Columbia University, New York City, 1959-1966, professor, 1966-1996, professor emeritus, from 1997.
Director Center Research and Education in American Liberties, 1965-1971. Founder, president Educational Fund Individual Rights, New York City, 1978-1986. President Changing Workplaces, Englewood, New Jersey, 1982-1987.
Program associate Harvard University, 1968-1972. Consultant International Business Machines Corporation, 1973-1975, United States Office Technology Assessment, from 1973. President Center Social and Legal Research, from 1987, Reformed Point Foundation, 1987-1998.
Partner Privacy Consultant Group, Washington, from 1993. Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Toolkit Software, from 1996. Chief Executive Officer, Privacy Knowledge, 2001—2003.
Director Privacy Exchange.org, from 1998, Japan-United States Privacy and Data Protection Program, from 1999. Chief Executive Officer Lifetime Privacy Manager, from 2003. Consultant on privacy to Equifax, Citicorp, International Business Machines Corporation, American Express, United States Social Security Administration, Chrysler, Health Data Exchange, New York State Identification and Intelligence Systems, Bell Atlantic, Glaxo Wellcome, Eli Lilly.
Consultant on employee rights Federal Express, Aetna Life and Casualty, Citicorp, International Business Machines Corporation, 1980-1986. Academy advisor national public surveys on privacy Louis Harris and Associates, 1979, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000. National public surveys on consultant privacy, Canada, 1992, 94, United Kingdom, Germany, 1999.
Director privacy and human genome project United States Department Energy, 1992-1995. Chairman emm. advisory panels United States Office Technology Assessment, 1975-1992. Chairman Reserve Council Healthy Companies, 1991-1995.
Speaker national business, professional, government conferences, since 1960. President Privacy & American Business Institute, since 1993.
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Member National Wiretapping Commission, 1973-1976. Vice-chairman New Jersey Commission Individual Liberty, 1977-1981. Senior consultant United States Privacy Protection Study Commission, 1975-1977.
Member National Academy of Sciences (computer science and engineering board 1969-1972), American Political Science Association, Association Computing Machinery (chairman task force privacy 1972-1973).
Married Beatrice Patricia Shapoff, June 20, 1954. Children: David (deceased), Debra, Jeremy.