Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (2004)
An illuminating and wise discussion of information security.
Jacqueline Klosek, War on Privacy (2006)
An interesting discussion of how nations from around the world recalibrated their law’s balance between privacy and security following 9/11.
Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear (2006)
A wise and thoughtful examination of how to sensibly promote security without unduly sacrificing liberty.
Christopher Wolf (editor), Proskauer on Privacy (2006)
An excellent treatise on the law of privacy.
Andrew E. Taslitz, Reconstructing the Fourth Amendment: A History of Search and Seizure, 1789-1868 (2006)
A fascinating historical account of the early days of the Fourth Amendment.
Eric A. Posner & Adrian Vermeule, Terror in the Balance (2006)
A provocative defense of strong Executive Branch national security surveillance and other measures.
Christopher Slobogin, Privacy at Risk: The New Government Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment (2007)
A comprehensive and sophisticated vision for how to reinvigorate the Fourth Amendment.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Guarding Life’s Dark Secrets (2007)
An fascinating history of privacy, gossip, and defamation.
Jeffrey Rosen, The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age (2004)
A wonderful sociological account of fear, security, and liberty in times of crisis.
Sam Gosling, Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You (2009)
A fascinating discussion of current psychological research about what the products we buy reveal about us.