Josh Chin, Liza Lin: Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (2022)

From Evan Osnos, The New Yorker: “A truly groundbreaking investigation . . . The global scope and deep detail of [Chin and Lin’s] account retires the notion of an ‘all-seeing’ 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…

David Lyon: Pandemic Surveillance (2022)

From Evan Selinger, LA Review of Books: “Since future pandemics will undoubtedly occur, it is essential that we establish trustworthy institutions to conduct public health surveillance. Hopefully Lyon’s insights will help shape the hard conversations that lie ahead…By integrating some of the core insights from privacy theory, data justice, and care ethics, he creates a novel conceptual toolkit…

Brian Hochman: The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States (2022)

From Andrew Lanham, New Republic: “Smart, 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 today’s private sector and government surveillance regimes. Hochman reveals the surprising strength of public resistance to all forms of electronic surveillance…

Sarah Lamdan: Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information (2022)

From the book description: “In 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…

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge: Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future (2022)

From Georgetown Public Policy Review: “This book. . . .offered insights, regardless of the reader’s 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.” From Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: “Access Rules is…

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Simson L. Garfinkel: Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (2022)

From Adam Shostack, author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security: “This book is broad, deep, and accessible – a rare combination in a single volume. This book opened my eyes to the complex scenarios that make up the future, and then gave me frameworks for understanding them. Highly recommended!” From Stewart Baker, former General Counsel, NSA:  “[A]…

Palmer Rampell: Genres of Privacy in Postwar America (2022)

From Harrison Blackman, Los Angeles Review of Books: “Genres of Privacy is a brainy and painstaking literature review of a variety of postwar genre works and their relationship to contemporary privacy-related issues… Rampell’s expansive definition of the right to privacy gives his book a wide sweep and provides a view into several different issues and genres, lending it…