about as you decided there was a book here. prof. gajda: one of the things i think is most interesting is when i talk about privacy with people, their response often is, we do not have any privacy, therefore, why are you even thinking about it? why do you teach privacy? and of course we do have privacy. we have had privacy for a very long time in the united states. so i really wrote this book for those people. but i was also writing it because i am intrigued with the right to privacy over time, how it began very early all the way through today. and one of the most important articles, titled, the right to privacy, written in 1890. and how that essay informs the way we think about privacy today. so it is all tangled, as the book suggests. and yet it is there in a very strong sense. susan: before we learn more about the history, there are some percolating current events i wanted to get to write off the back off the bat. the draft opinion leak of roe v. wade. you have already w
tell us what you were thinking about as you decided there was a book here. prof. gajda: one of the things i think is most interesting is when i talk about privacy with people, their response often is, we do not have any privacy, therefore, why are you even thinking about it? why do you teach privacy? and of course we do have privacy. we have had privacy for a very long time in the united states. so i really wrote this book for those people. but i was also writing it because i am intrigued with the right to privacy over time, how it began very early all the way through today. and one of the most important articles, titled, the right to privacy, written in 1890. and how that essay informs the way we think about privacy today. so it is all tangled, as the book suggests. and yet it is there in a very strong sense. susan: before we learn more about the history, there are some percolating current events i wanted to get to write off the back off the bat. the draft opinion leak of