<div><p>"He was the most important scholar of privacy since Louis Brandeis."?Jeffrey Rosen</p><p>"No work about privacy had done such a thorough job . . . in elucidating the meaning and importance of privacy."?Daniel Solove</p><p>In defining privacy as "the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated," <I>Privacy and Freedom</I> (1967) laid the philosophical groundwork for current debates about technology and personal freedom, and is considered a foundational text in the field of privacy law.</p><p><B>Alan Westin</B> (1929?2013) was a professor of public law and government at Columbia University for almost forty years. Through his work?notably his book <I>Privacy and Freedom</I>?Westin is considered to have created, almost single-handedly, the modern field of privacy law.</p><BR></div>