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…
Case studies of individuals harmed by twitter mobs, media attacks and cyber harassment. Ronson warns the public to consider the “level of mercilessness” with which it feels comfortable before joining in public shaming.
Short essays by Ryan Calo, Gary Marx, Helen Nissenbaum, Frank Pasquale, Deborah Peel, Danielle Citron, Michael Froomkin, and Pamela Samuelson, among others.
From Kirkus Reviews: “A provocative excursion to the darker side of human nature set free by the anonymous and unregulated boundaries of cyberspace.” From B&N Review: “It is Bartlett’s plentiful and fascinating interviews with the denizens of the dark net that make his book so compelling… Quite worrying, a bit disgusting, highly voyeuristic, and occasionally…
Account of the popular 1825 play Paul Pry “resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres.”
This is a thoughtful account of how to balance privacy and freedom of the press. Much has been written on this topic, but Gajda’s book tackles contemporary dimensions of the issues, such as who counts as a “journalist” in these days of blogs and social media. Her positions are balanced rather than extreme. I agree…
“An exhilarating read, brimming with passion. Pasquale’s bold and ambitious book lifts the lid on the ‘black box society’ by tackling a wide array of issues, from secrecy in finance to credit scoring, from search engines to automated decision-making, from institutional transparency to the relationship between government and big corporations. Writing with urgency and utter…
Franklin Zimring (U.C. Berkeley) writes: “This is the first sustained and analytic look at profoundly important policy on criminal records. In accessible prose, Jacobs provides a guide for legal and criminal justice scholars, practitioners and advocates, and anyone concerned with privacy, employment policy, and race relations. A very important book.” Milton Heumann (Rutgers University) writes:…
This is a great collection of essays by Thomas Blanton, David Cole, John Mills, Hodding Carter, Barry Siegel, and Edward Wasserman. Topics include the Snowden leaks, the state secrets doctrine, journlaists and whistleblowers, classification of government documents, and more.
