From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Freedom / Privacy / Security Outline

Destroying Most Records of the Past Along with 460, or More, Scholars
(213 BCE – 206 BCE)

The Edict of Milan Proclaims "Religious Toleration"
(313 CE)

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)

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

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

The Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire
(1807)

Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1949)

Fahrenheit 451
(1953)

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)

Privacy Act of 1974
(May 1974)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is Founded
(1990)

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

EPIC
(1994)

Selling Wine without Bottles
(1994)

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

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
(1996)

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 of Internet Security
(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)

Decoding Printer Tracking Dots
(October 19, 2005)

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

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

Securing Cyberspace
(December 8, 2008)

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

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

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