The right to privacy is one of the rights enshrined in international human rights law. It has been a topic of interest for both academic and non-academic audiences around the world. However, with the increasing digitalisation of modern life, protecting oneâs privacy has become more complicated. Both state and non-state organizations make frequent interventions in…
From Jonathan Sterne, Professor of Culture and Technology, McGill University: âAt once fascinating and terrifying, The Secret Life of Data offers a kaleidoscopic view of the industries and technologies that collect, mine, churn, and trade our data, and what to do about them.â From Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, The University of Virginia: âI…
From David Murakami Wood, Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa: âThis book is direct, impatient (in the best way possible), and urgent. It doesnât waste time summarizing all the things we already know about privacy in the United States, but instead asks, What is to be done? We need a book like this.â
This book is intended to contribute to a better understanding of privacy from a philosophical point of view â what it is, what is at stake in its loss, and how it relates to other rights and values. The five parts that compose this book respond to five basic questions about privacy: Where does privacy…
From Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School: âByron Tauâs extraordinary book recounts in engrossing detail how the U.S. government exploits massive loopholes in U.S. surveillance law to purchase in vast digital bazaars the intimate personal data that Americans unwittingly spew from their phones, cars, and computers every minute of every day.…
From Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity: âIn The Algorithm, Hilke Schellmann has done the impossible: she has rendered the baffling âWild Westâ of AI immensely readable and approachable. Schellmann gives us the dark and hidden history of tech innovation and the marketplace through the stories of those whose lives have been smashed by…
From Karen Levy, author of Data Driven: âThe Ordinal Society will enter the pantheon, both as a work of cross-cutting social theory and as a clear-eyed reflection on the stakes of digital technology. Marshalling an astonishing range of theoretical and empirical knowledge to build their argument, Fourcade and Healy compellingly demonstrate just how integral measurement…
From Mark Lemley, Stanford University: âA delightfully wide-ranging and eminently readable exploration of how laws, norms, technology, and our own thinking guide our behavior, and how we should think about it.â From Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study: âBalancing individual freedoms and the common good is ever more critical in the…
From Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker: âAs artificial intelligence proliferates, more and more hinges on our ability to articulate our own value. We seem to be on the cusp of a world in which workers of all kindsâteachers, doctors, writers, photographers, lawyers, coders, clerks, and moreâwill be replaced with, or to some degree sidelined by,…
From Danah Doyd, author of Itâs Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens: âWhile the cookies at the center of Meg Leta Jonesâs 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.â From Sarah E. Igo, author…