“‘The policy of any given legal system to any privacy issues is typically the result of incremental changes made over centuries by courts and legistlative bodies,’ the sultan says. ‘ with all due respect, very little of it is relevant to modern privacy issues.’”

Neal Stephenson – Cryptonomicon

Das Buch ist von 1999. Erstaunlich wie aktuell es immer noch ist, in Anbetracht all der Schnüffel-Leyen and anderen Angriffen auf den Kernbereich der privaten Lebensführung.