Author Archives: Privacy+Security Academy

Margaret Atwood, The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale (2019)

From The Boston Globe: “Powerful, revealing, and engaging”

Mary Anne Franks, The Cult of the Constitution (2019)

From Danielle Citron (Professor of Law, Boston University Law Schoool): “Mary Anne Franks’s book–in the most thoughtful and engrossing way–takes on central problems of our time. How can we reconcile the Constitution’s aspirations with its founders’ experiences and commitments? Is a document written for the most privileged up to the task of a 21st digital…

Carrie Goldberg, Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls (2019)

From New York Times Book Review: “[A] memoir doubling as a rallying cry for privacy justice. . . . Goldberg chronicles in Nobody’s Victim her battle for justice in a tone that is both take-no-prisoners and warmly gregarious . . . The cases she narrates are gut-wrenching, and her conversational approach lightens what could otherwise be…

Julie E. Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (2019)

From Joseph Turow (Robert Lewis Shayon Chair Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania): “Julie Cohen presents a highly knowledgeable, nuanced analysis of the challenges that the twenty-first century’s digital environment presents to the legal and regulatory apparatus, which was built in the industrial age.  Every page holds important insights, and every chapter…

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019)

“Zuboff’s book is the information industry’s Silent Spring.” –Christopher Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley