1. The declaration of privacy -- 2. Postal politics, purity, and privacy -- 3. Population, punch cards, and privacy -- 4. Privacy in state courts and legislatures -- 5. No more gentlemen: the rise of governmental espionage -- 6. Peeping Toms of public life -- 7. The great red threats to privacy: credit cards and communism -- 8. Privacy's golden hour: the Warren court -- 9. "Toward freedom from fear": the privacy versus securuty debate intensifies -- 10. The phantom delete key: the incredible durability of data -- 11. No PC is an island: the rise of online communities -- 12. Electronic exhibitionism and voyeurism: privacy in a webbled world -- Conclusion The perilous state of privacy