Privacy’s Memory Lane: From Furor to Fail in Eight Years

Stewart Baker writes:

Privacy groups put much of their effort into attacking new technologies for a reason.  They’re afraid that, once we see a technology in action, we won’t be scared by its hypothetical risks, while its benefits will be easier to assess. Once that happens, imposing new privacy laws gets a lot harder.

To see just how fast that cycle can run, let’s take a trip down privacy’s memory lane.