From Danah Doyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens: “While the cookies at the center of Meg Leta Jones’s book are not made of sugar, The Character of Consent is a sweet and delicious examination of the politics of data and privacy in our digital world.”

From Sarah E. Igo, author of The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America: “Who knew that the humble cookie contains the crumbs of so many of our internet-age dilemmas? Discover here the compelling, necessary backstory of how we arrived at a digital present that we never truly consented to.”