Freedom / Privacy / Security Timeline Outline

Constantine's Religious Toleration Does Not Apply to Jews
(October 18, 315 CE)

Sultan Bayezid II Wellcomes Jewish Refugees from Spain
(August 1492)

"For Books are Not Absolutely Dead Things; but Doe Contain a Potencie of Life . . . ."
(1644)

The Constitution of the United States
(September 17, 1787 – June 21, 1788)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
(August 26 – August 27, 1789)

The Bill of Rights
(September 25, 1789 – December 15, 1791)

Jews Receive Full Citizenship in France
(September 27, 1791)

The Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire
(1807)

The Emancipation Proclamation
(January 1, 1863 – 1864)

Blue-Print for The Third Reich
(1925 – 1927)

"Nineteen Eighty-Four"
(1949)

The National Security Agency is Founded
(November 4, 1952)

"Fahrenheit 451"
(1953 – 2011)

One of the Earliest Surviving British Television Dramas
(December 12 – December 14, 1954)

Standing up to Censorship and McCarthyism
(1956)

"Nineteen Eighty-Four" Filmed
(1956)

Invasion of Privacy by Computers
(1965)

Computer Privacy
(March 1967)

Protecting Security in a Networked Environment
(Circa May – September 1967)

First Systematic Review of Computer Security Issues
(February 1970)

Code of Fair Information Practice
(July 1973)

The Privacy Act of 1974
(May 1974)

Public Key Cryptography
(1976)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is Founded
(1990)

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
(March 26 – March 28, 1991)

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
(1994)

Selling Wine without Bottles
(March 1994)

Steve Jackson Games v. U.S. Secret Service
(October 31, 1994)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
(1996)

The FBI Implements Carnivore
(1997 – 2002)

The Internet is Entitled to the Full Protection Given to Printed Material
(June 26, 1997)

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act
(October 12, 1998)

Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
(November 29, 1999)

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
(2000)

Safeguarding Internet Security in China
(December 28, 2000)

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of Commons in a Connected World
(2001)

IBM and the Holocaust
(2001)

Creative Commons
(December 2002)

Privacy of Medical Records and Electronic Data
(April 14, 2003)

NarusInsight Supercomputer Network Monitoring Software
(2005)

Decoding Printer Tracking Dots
(October 19, 2005)

Hepting v. AT&T
(January 31, 2006)

The "Cyber Storm" War Game
(February 6 – February 10, 2006)

"An Uncensorable System for Mass Document Leaking"
(December 2006)

Wikileaks Manifesto
(December 31, 2006)

Google Introduces Street View in Google Maps
(May 25, 2007 – May 12, 2008)

Securing Cyberspace
(December 8, 2008)

Google's Computers in China Come Under Attack, Initiating a Review of the Company's Operations in China
(December 2009 – January 12, 2010)

Exploit Code for Attacks on Google Released on the Internet
(January 15, 2010)

Google Acknowledges that it Collected Wi-Fi Information Along with Cartographic and Imaging Information
(April 27 – June 10, 2010)

Using the Twitter Archive for Historical Research
(April 30, 2010)

Wikileaks Installs an "Insurance File"
(July 29, 2010)

The Wikileaks U. S. Diplomatic Cables Leak
(November 28 – December 8, 2010)

Founder of Wikileaks to Publish his Autobiography
(December 27, 2010)

The Anatomy of an Internet Attack by "Anonymous"
(2012)

Major Websites Go Dark to Protest Web Censorship Legislation
(January 17, 2012)

During Testimony over a Phone Hacking Scandal Rupert Murdoch Predicts the End of Print News Media
(April 26, 2012)

"Anonymous" Plans to Shut Down Syrian Government Websites in Response to Countrywide Internet Blackout
(November 29 – December 1, 2012)

U.S. Bill to Stengthen Privacy Protection for Emails
(November 29, 2012)