A History of Digital Identity 1890 >> Next 1963

TYPE: [PARTICIPANT] Herman Hollerith
DESCRIPTION: Hollerith created a tabulating device which helped record data from the 1890 census on punch cards. Hollerith later left the U.S. Census to found a company that would through a series of mergers become IBM. By 1943 the Social Security Administration would have in storage over 100 million such punch cards. (Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (2000)).
PARTICIPANTS: Herman Hollerith
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TYPE: [Law Review Article] "The Right to Privacy," 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193
DESCRIPTION: In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis first identified the right to privacy and concluded that "it is the unwarranted invasion of individual privacy which is reprehended, and to be, so far as possible, prevented." This article is considered by many to be the origin of privacy law in the United States.
PARTICIPANTS: Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis
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