Privacy Lost. From Stasi to Smartphones

From the wiretaps of the Cold War to the data mining of the digital age, surveillance has become the defining condition of modern life. Privacy Lost traces a continuous thread of control, comparing the methods of East Germany's Stasi with the global surveillance architectures built by tech corporations and states today. Using historical documents, intelligence archives, and firsthand testimonies, the book reveals how technological progress often erodes the boundary between safety and intrusion.
It examines how societies justified mass monitoring in the name of order, and what citizens sacrificed in return. Both a historical chronicle and a warning, this documentary history illuminates the tension between security, transparency, and personal freedom across decades of innovation.