Tag Archives: Books 2024

Lindsay Weinberg, Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (2024)

Simone Browne, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness: “Smart University is a much-needed sociohistorical analysis of how data capture, surveillance, and austerity measures govern student life in higher education. From algorithmic recruitment and neoliberal wellness apps to the punitive digital tracking of Black student-athletes and invasive exam proctoring software, Weinberg brilliantly demonstrates…

Janet S. Loengard, Light, Privacy, and Neighbors: Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London (2024)

With both legal and social themes, the book will be of interest to historians, architects, city planners, lawyers curious about the background for modern law on physical privacy, and anyone fascinated by the history of London.

Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul De Hert, The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU (2024)

This book identifies three phenomena which are common to all EU digital technologies-relevant regulatory initiatives: act-ification, GDPR mimesis, and regulatory brutality. These three phenomena serve as indicators or early signs of a new European technology law-making paradigm that now seems ready to emerge. They divulge new-found confidence on the part of the EU digital technologies…

Paul Wragg, Peter Coe and Paul Mitchell, Landmark Cases in Privacy Law (2024)

From Barbara McDonald, University of Sydney Law School, Gazette of Law and Journalism: “Highly readable, with the editors and authors the Who’s Who of privacy law, and each chapter providing interesting factual or contextual background to what might otherwise be rather dry or complex legal arguments in the judgments … if you are interested in…

Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2024)

From Greg Grandin, professor of history, Yale University: “Petra Molnar’s The Walls Have Eyes is an unnerving look at the use of artificial intelligence for border surveillance—how governments and private business are forcing the most vulnerable and desperate of people through a virtual sieve, which captures bits of their being for profit and discipline. We…

Kieron O’Hara, The Seven Veils of Privacy: How Our Debates About Privacy Conceal Its Nature (2024)

From Charles Raab, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh: “O’Hara gives us a refreshingly provocative, learned, distinctive and lively book about privacy that will stimulate important debates.” From Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: “How should we talk about privacy? Before you answer that question, read this book.”

Lowry Pressly, The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life (2024)

From Ben Tarnoff, New Yorker: “A radiantly original contribution to a conversation gravely in need of new thinking…takes up familiar fixations of tech discourse―privacy, mental health, civic strife―but puts them into such a new and surprising arrangement that they are nearly unrecognizable…Lawyers like to make privacy about process. Pressly makes it about power.” From John…

Damian Clifford, Data Protection Law and Emotion (2024)

Original and insightful, Data Protection Law and Emotion offers a unique contribution to a contentious debate that will appeal to students and academics in data protection and privacy, policymakers, practitioners, and regulators.

Hideyuki Matsumi, Dara Hallinan, Diana Dimitrova, Eleni Kosta and Paul De Hert: Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 16: Ideas that Drive Our Digital World (2024)

This interdisciplinary book takes readers on an intellectual journey into a wide range of issues and cutting-edge ideas to tackle our ever-evolving digital landscape. The first half of the book focuses on issues related to the GDPR and data. The second half of the book shifts focus to novel issues and ideas that drive our…

Hideyuki Matsumi, Dara Hallinan, Diana Dimitrova, Eleni Kosta and Paul De Hert: Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 15: In Transitional Times (2024)

This book covers a range of topics, including: data protection risks in European retail banks; data protection, privacy legislation, and litigation in China; synthetic data generation as a privacy-preserving technique for the training of machine learning models; effectiveness of privacy consent dialogues; legal analysis of the role of individuals in data protection law; and the…