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Mechanical Spies. Sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and financed by $75,000 worth of Carnegie Corporation grants, Privacy and Freedom took four years to write. It involved Westin in hundreds of interviews, thousands of hours of research through newspapers, court records and books, ranging from Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Just as thoroughly, Westin has compiled a catalogue of electronic bugging devices, wiretaps and mechanical spies that will surprise even those who think they are up on the subject. Items currently available...
...papers or on TV or in magazines. Major issues are often so complex that the only way to deal with them is in book form, and book publishers have been concentrating more and more on lengthy treatment of topical matters. Privacy and Freedom, a thoughtful assessment by Alan F. Westin of the growing threat to the traditional American right to be left alone, is a case in point...
...Westin, a 37-year-old Columbia University lawyer and political scientist, is regarded by many as the leading U.S. specialist on privacy. His writings on the subject have been cited by the Supreme Court and used as a basis for legislation. In his new book published by Atheneum, Westin insists that the right to privacy must nolonger be taken for granted. The mounting psychological and electronic assault on private lives poses a threat that cannot be exaggerated, he points out, and "we have only a few years of lead time before the problem will outgrow our capacity to apply controls...
...majority does not actually say that, however, and it does imply that the "showing of special facts" could overcome the disability. The court's rule is confusing, but, says Columbia Law Professor Alan Westin, who has a book on the subject due to come out soon: "If my life depended on drafting an acceptable eavesdropping statute along the lines of the decision, I think I would have a pretty good chance...
JEROME B. WESTIN, M.D. Columbus, Ohio...