It is easier in the e-mail context to draw a very bright line than it is to draw a shade.
Predictor: Krantz, Rick
Prediction, in context:In their 1995 book “The Right to Privacy,” Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman write:”We are concerned like everyone else with our own privacy, our own rights. What we try to do is evolve a policy that makes sense for us. We’re the ones who have to live with it, and it makes sense to me if I know my limits … No, we don’t check our line. It is easier in the e-mail context to draw a very bright line than it is to draw a shade.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Privacy/Surveillance
Name of publication: The Right to Privacy
Title, headline, chapter name: Shoars v. Epson American Inc. High-Tech Monitoring
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 315
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Vellucci, Amanda