End of an Era

I've just been informed of the death of Alan Westin.

Professor Westin was one of the pioneers in the modern debate about privacy and the law and his writings certainly influenced much of my early academic work. His book, Privacy and Freedom was published in 1967 and is still worth reading. I doubt whether the same will be said of my books 50 years from now.

There is an obituary in the New York Times which you can link to from here

Ian