From the book description: âIn this timely book, Neil Selwyn and Mark Andrejevic provide a critical introduction to facial recognition. Outlining its complex social history and future technical forms, as well as its conceptual and technical underpinnings, the book considers the arguments being advanced for the continued uptake of facial recognition. In assessing these developments,…
From Science Magazine: âA masterful analysisâŠLobel expertly describes both the opportunities and the discrimination engendered by new technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI).â From Kirkus: âEnthusiastic yet measured argument for technologyâs potential to promote equality across many facets of culture and industry.â From Daniel Solove: â[A}n exuberant and insightful account of the bright side of AI and related…
From The New York Times: âWry and fascinatingâŠGajda is a nimble storyteller [and] an insightful guide to a rich and textured history that gets easily caricatured, especially when a culture war is raging.â From The Atlantic: âGajdaâs chronicle reveals an enduring tension between principles of free speech and respect for individualsâ private lives. But it also throws into sharp…
From Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post: âZegart provides not just a sweeping history of the U.S. intelligence community but also nuggets that help place events in a new context. . . . A perfect primer for anyone trying to understand how the intelligence community is meeting the challenges of the digital age.â From Harvey Klehr, Wall Street Journal:  âA lucid…
From Evan Osnos, The New Yorker: âA truly groundbreaking investigation . . . The global scope and deep detail of [Chin and Linâs] account retires the notion of an âall-seeingâ surveillance as some future scenario; it is happening already. They will open your eyes to the astonishing intersection of data, politics, and the human body. Anyone who cares…
From Evan Selinger, LA Review of Books: âSince future pandemics will undoubtedly occur, it is essential that we establish trustworthy institutions to conduct public health surveillance. Hopefully Lyonâs insights will help shape the hard conversations that lie aheadâŠBy integrating some of the core insights from privacy theory, data justice, and care ethics, he creates a novel conceptual toolkit…
From Andrew Lanham, New Republic: âSmart, entertaining, and occasionally alarming. . . Hochman narrates a century and a half of wiretapping, from the Civil War to the War on Terror. What emerges is a powerful prehistory of todayâs private sector and government surveillance regimes. Hochman reveals the surprising strength of public resistance to all forms of electronic surveillance…
From the book description: âWritten by leading expert Jody Westby, this resource provides the basic information directors and officers need to know to meet their fiduciary duties, exercise appropriate cyber governance, and protect their organization against shareholder derivative and securities lawsuits.â
From the book description: âIn this book, Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. This in turn has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market-based solutions, Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports…
From Georgetown Public Policy Review: âThis book. . . .offered insights, regardless of the readerâs 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.â From Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: âAccess Rules is…