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Tiffany Jenkins

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1. “relative end with toleration and what that effectively meant was that people could worship to a degree in the private realm with freedom so by recognizing that people might want to worship God in particular ways to avoid the bloodshed they kind of confined religion to the private realm relative to what came before and that begins a sort of sense that there are some things in life that are separate from the state from God and from the other you know from communities really”

   2025-04-28 · Intelligence Squared · A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “That's right. So you have Martin Luther kick-starting the Protestant Reformation, accidentally, really. You have the impact of that on Europe, and in particular England with Henry VIII rolling it out into England. And you have these tremendous conflicts over faith. The best way to follow God, to be saved, to not go to hell, and all the rest of it. And this is a time in which the church really owned every part of your life. It's a very communal society and it's kind of interwoven with religion. You have to go to church. You have to worship in a certain way. And that's obviously a very internal thing as well as how you organize your life. But the religious wars that ensued, because this was a phenomenon that set off decades, if not centuries, of bloodshed and conflict came to an end or a”

   2025-04-28 · Intelligence Squared · A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Exactly. He's blamed for everything and he deserves a lot of blame, but not for the erosion of privacy. But also a lot of other books that look at the history of privacy begin in the 19th century. So this is when privacy is a kind of social value. There are a lot of privacy scares around wiretapping, newspapers, Kodak cameras, which you could take a picture of somebody on the street, which was genuinely freaky for people in those days. But my question was, well, If we had privacy in the 19th century to the extent that it was a social value and people were worried it was being taken away, where did it come from? It's not a natural phenomena. We don't naturally have privacy. So I wanted to go back a little bit in time to see where its origin story was.”

   2025-04-28 · Intelligence Squared · A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

4. “Yes, so there were two things I wanted to do in this book. One, to take it back in time, because a lot of the books on privacy today do start with the internet, social media, Facebook.”

   2025-04-28 · Intelligence Squared · A Cultural History of Privacy, with Tiffany Jenkins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT