Category Archives: Books (PSA)

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge: Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future (2022)

From Georgetown Public Policy Review: “This book. . . .offered insights, regardless of the reader’s familiarity levels with technology policy. Access Rules offers concrete solutions and poses critical open-ended questions. We live in an increasingly digital age, and this book is truly a must-read for all policy students and policymakers.” From Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: “Access Rules is…

Mikko Hypponen: If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable (2022)

From Misha Glenny, Financial Times: “What makes him stand out is that, although he is a master coder and cyber security engineer, he is a superb communicator.” From Kristie Lu Stout, CNN anchor and correspondent: “An excellent and engaging survey of cybersecurity…”

Annie Machon: The Privacy Mission: Achieving Ethical Data for Our Lives Online (2022)

From Cory Doctorow, novelist: “Everything we do today involves the internet; everything we do tomorrow will require it. And yet, our virtual world is a lawless one, where governments and corporations trample human rights and insist it doesn’t matter because it’s the internet. This is a book that shows you how far our human rights…

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Simson L. Garfinkel: Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (2022)

From Adam Shostack, author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security: “This book is broad, deep, and accessible – a rare combination in a single volume. This book opened my eyes to the complex scenarios that make up the future, and then gave me frameworks for understanding them. Highly recommended!” From Stewart Baker, former General Counsel, NSA:  “[A]…

Palmer Rampell: Genres of Privacy in Postwar America (2022)

From Harrison Blackman, Los Angeles Review of Books: “Genres of Privacy is a brainy and painstaking literature review of a variety of postwar genre works and their relationship to contemporary privacy-related issues… Rampell’s expansive definition of the right to privacy gives his book a wide sweep and provides a view into several different issues and genres, lending it…

Karen Levy: Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance (2022)

From danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens: “Leveraging compelling ethnographic fieldwork into the dynamics at play in the trucking sector, Levy brilliantly reveals how our collective fantasies about the future of automation are naive. This book invites readers to grapple with how technology and surveillance reconfigure work in subtle and profound…

Jacqueline Lipton: Our Data, Ourselves (2022)

From Carl Coleman, Profess of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law: “There are few resources available for nonspecialists to learn about data privacy issues. This book fills this gap by providing a comprehensive overview of issues relevant to ordinary citizens, in language understandable by all.” From David Hickton, Founding Director of Pitt Cyber:…

Jodi Daniels: Data Reimagined: Building Trust One Byte at a Time (2022)

From the book description: “In Data Reimagined, data privacy and cybersecurity experts Jodi and Justin Daniels show how to leverage your company’s privacy and security practices to transform your relationship with customers and earn their trust. Privacy and security demands evolve quickly, putting business leaders and executives in a race against time. Data Reimagined will help…

Maurice E. Stucke: Breaking Away: How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy (2022)

From the book description: “Breaking Away sounds a warning call alerting readers that their privacy and autonomy concerns are indeed warranted, and the remedies deserve far greater attention than they have received from our leading policymakers and experts to date. Through the various prisms of economic theory, market data, policy, and law, the book offers a…

Jeff Kosseff, The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech (2022)