Robert Ellis Smith, Ben Franklin’s Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Plymouth Rock to the Internet (2004)
A superb history of privacy law, filled with fascinating stories and details. Very readable and very informative.
Jeffrey Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2000)
A very interesting and highly readable discussion of privacy.
Simson Garfinkel, Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (2001)
Describes with great detail a litany of new technologies that are posing problems for privacy.
John Gilliom, Overseers of the Poor : Surveillance, Resistance, and the Limits of Privacy (2001)
A fascinating account of the way that the welfare system exerts bureaucratic control over people’s lives and how people experience the limits the system imposes on their privacy.
Graeme Laurie, Genetic Privacy (2002)
A thorough and incisive discussion of privacy and genetic information.
Frederick Lane, The Naked Employee: How Technology Is Compromising Workplace Privacy (2003)
A very thoughtful overview of the political landscape of privacy policy around the world.
Colin Bennett & Charles Raab, The Governance of Privacy (2006)
A very thoughtful overview of the political landscape of privacy policy around the world.
Electronic Privacy Information Center & Privacy International, Privacy and Human Rights (2006)
An extremely comprehensive survey of the privacy laws of nearly every nation in the world.
Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (2004)
An illuminating and wise discussion of information security.
Jacqueline Klosek, War on Privacy (2006)
An interesting discussion of how nations from around the world recalibrated their law’s balance between privacy and security following 9/11.