On authors who were publishing information technology panopticon concerns in the 1980s, or earlier
A quickie dump.
Paul Baran / RAND
"On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy"
"On the Future Computer Era: Modification of the American Character and the Role of the Engineer, or, A Little Caution in the Haste to Number"
"The Coming Computer Utility -- Laissez-Faire, Licensing, or Regulation?"
"Remarks on the Question of Privacy Raised by the Automation of Mental Health Records"
"Some Caveats on the Contribution of Technology to Law Enforcement"
Largely written/published 1967--1969.
https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html
Willis Ware / RAND
Too numerous to list fully, 1960s --1990s. Highlights:
"Security and Privacy in Computer Systems" (1967)
"Computers in Society's Future" (1971)
"Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens" (1973
"Privacy and Security Issues in Information Systems" (1976)
"Information Systems, Security, and Privacy" (1983)
"The new faces of privacy" (1993)
https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/ware_willis_h.html
Misc
Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) Notably reviewed in the Whole Earth Catalog's Signal: Communication Tools for the Information Age (1988).
https://www.worldcat.org/title/in-the-age-of-the-smart-machine-the-future-of-work-and-power/oclc/60966402 https://archive.org/details/inageofsmartmach00zubo/page/n7/mode/2up
"Danger to Civil Rights?", 80 Microcomputing (1982)
https://archive.org/stream/80_Microcomputing_Issue_26_1982-02_1001001_US#page/n295/mode/2up (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329877)
"Computer-Based National Information Systems: Technology and Public Policy", NTIS (September 1981)
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ota/Ota_5/DATA/1981/8109.PDF
"23 to Study Computer ‘Threat’" (1970)
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/12/archives/23-to-study-computer-threat.html
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
"Privacy and Information Technology" bibliography is largely 1990--present, but contains some earlier references.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/it-privacy/#Bib
Similarly "Privacy"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/
Credit Reporting / Legislation
US Privacy Act of 1974
https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974
Invasion of Privacy Act 1971 - Queensland Government, Australia
https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/inforce/current/act-1971-050
Arthur R. Miller, The assault on privacy: computers, data banks, and dossiers
https://archive.org/details/assaultonprivacy00mill/page/n7/mode/2up
"The Computer, the Consumer and Privacy" (1984)
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/04/weekinreview/the-computer-the-consumer-and-privacy.html
Richard Boeth / Newsweek
The specific item I'd had in mind:
Richard Boeth, "Is Privacy Dead", Newsweek, July 27, 1970
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/11/is-privacy-dead.html%EF%BB%BF
Direct PDF: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/712228/1970-newsweek-coverstory-privacy.pdf
Based on an HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24851736
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