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The printed Confessions publish other people’s sexual and household lives without their consent

The 1782–1789 Confessions name lovers, patrons, and rivals in intimate detail as a public book. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

Sources: [1][2]

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The 1782–1789 Confessions name lovers, patrons, and rivals in intimate detail as a public book. It is literature and it is a non-consensual personal file.

Context

Autobiography can be knowledge and can be exposure. Split the genre-access row.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    Named author, patient of police, or heading of later reception. Printers, parlements, and later states share the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe printed Confessions publish other people’s sexual and household lives without their consent
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.45 · Effect from 1 March 1782 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Cambridge Companion to RousseauCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — public-domain EnglishProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJean-Jacques Rousseau
  2. contributed toFactThe printed Confessions publish other people’s sexual and household lives without their consent
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). The printed Confessions publish other people’s sexual and household lives without their consent. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-confessions-others-named

https://factrail.ai/facts/jjr-confessions-others-named

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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