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The invasion of privacy in America has lost most of
its meaning in the acoustic age of resonance. In
Russia espionage by ear is normal, whereas spying
by eye is considered an atrocity. Privacy, however, is
basically the concern of the visual man and is not
much known to people of the ear. Another way of
putting it is to say that the acoustic invasion of
privacy is subliminal and total, whereas visual
privacy is strictly limited and enclosed.
Marshall McLuhan, “The President Who Was Not in
Touch with the Present,” unpublished, 1974.