Daniel Solove’s thoughts about the book from his interview with McNicholas: The treatise is a superb guide to this rapidly-growing body of law, and it is nicely succinct as treatises go. It is an extremely useful volume that Iâm delighted I have on my desk. If you practice in this field, get this book.
Privacy, Security, and Accountability is a terrific collection of essays by leading thinkers on privacy and security. These essays explore philosophically the role of privacy and security in democratic society. The chapters have depth and tackle the enduring questions in insightful and interesting ways. Rich with theory, the book is also accessible and timely.
The book has a wonderful selection of short philosophical essays on privacy, and Iâm honored to be included among the terrific group of chapter authors, who include Anita Allen, Paul Schwartz, Helen Nissenbaum, Judith Wagner DeCew, Kirsty Hughes, Colin Bennett, Adam Moore, and Priscilla Regan, among many others. Each chapter is succinct and well-chosen.
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School) writes: âBeautifully written and powerfully argued, Laws of Image shows us how the law develops through culture, leaving us with a rich sense of the struggle that remains as digital culture renders the image as common as the bit.â Stuart Banner (UCLA Law) writes: âIn a series of compelling stories…
David Greenberg (Rutgers University) writes: âThe Rise of the Right to Know identifies the emergence of transparency or openness in the 1960s and â70s as a leading principle in American political culture.â George Brock writes in the Times Literary Supplement: âBy piecing together the story of new laws on freedom of information, consumer labeling and…
Robert B. Reich of U.C. Berkeley writes: âRobert Scheer reminds us that privacy is everythingâthe protector of our liberty, the guarantor of our personal autonomy, the fountainhead of our democracyâand yet itâs disappearing faster than an electronic blip moving at warp speed from your computer to the NSA. With clarity and precision, Scheer dissects the…
This Privacy by Design guide demonstrates in a practical and thoughtful way how software can be engineered to be more privacy-protective. From the book description: âIdeal for software engineers new to privacy, this book helps you examine privacy-protective information management architectures and their foundational componentsâbuilding blocks that you can combine in many ways. Policymakers, academics,…
From Danah Boyd: âA fantastic antidote to the media-driven moral panic. . . . Hasinoffâs thoughtful book offers a framework for rethinking sexual media production and the politics of consent. This is a critical intervention to a fraught topic.â From Choice: âThe authorâs aim is to propose alternative ways to deal with gender and sexual…
Seyla Benhabib (Yale University) writes: âAn impassioned plea to liberal democrats to wake up to the perils posed by the new digital technologies to their freedoms and selves. We have become a âsociety of expositors,â willingly and naively exposing our most intimate lives to the scrutiny of impersonal agencies, endangering not only our civil liberties…
Privacy on the Ground is a deep and insightful account of the unwritten law of privacy, crafted from the way that privacy professionals steer internal governance of privacy within companies. The rise of the privacy profession has had as great an impact on privacy today as any law. Privacy on the Ground shows us that…