Author Archives: Privacy + Security Academy (S)

Megan Richardson, The Right to Privacy: Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea (2020)

From the book description: “Using original and archival material, The Right to Privacy traces the origins and influence of the right to privacy as a social, cultural and legal idea. Richardson argues that this right had emerged as an important legal concept across a number of jurisdictions by the end of the nineteenth century, providing…

Firmin Debrabander, Life After Privacy (2020)

From William Egginton, author of The Splintering of the American Mind: “Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society is an eloquent, compelling call for us to rethink our commitment to privacy by understanding its history and uses. Rather than attempting to double down on a possibly doomed principle, DeBrabander argues that what is really needed…

Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror (2020)

From Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times: “Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . . a marvelous narrator for this particular story, as he nimbly guides us through complex technical arcana and some stubborn ethical questions. . . . Dark Mirror would be simply pleasurable to read if the story it…

Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (2020)

From James Gleick, New York Review of Books: “Lepore is a brilliant and prolific historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories, and this one is a remarkable saga, sometimes comical, sometimes ominous: a “shadow history of the 1960s,” as she writes…. Lepore finds in it a plausible untold origin story for our current panopticon: a…

Scott Skinner-Thompson, Privacy at the Margins (2020)

From Khiara M. Bridges, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law and author of The Poverty of Privacy Rights: “Privacy at the Margins is a tour de force. It reinvigorates our understandings of why privacy ought to be protected by identifying the First Amendment values that privacy rights implicate. It convincingly argues that privacy…

Frank Pasquale, New Laws of Robotics (2020)

From the Financial Times: “Thought-provoking…Explores how we can best try to ensure that robots work for us, rather than against us, and proposes a new set of laws to provide a conceptual framework for our thinking on the subject.” From Jack Balkin: “In Frank Pasquale’s bold and humane vision of robotics and artificial intelligence, technology transforms…