Seyla Benhabib (Yale University) writes: “An impassioned plea to liberal democrats to wake up to the perils posed by the new digital technologies to their freedoms and selves. We have become a ‘society of expositors,’ willingly and naively exposing our most intimate lives to the scrutiny of impersonal agencies, endangering not only our civil liberties…
Privacy on the Ground is a deep and insightful account of the unwritten law of privacy, crafted from the way that privacy professionals steer internal governance of privacy within companies. The rise of the privacy profession has had as great an impact on privacy today as any law. Privacy on the Ground shows us that…
Case studies of individuals harmed by twitter mobs, media attacks and cyber harassment. Ronson warns the public to consider the “level of mercilessness” with which it feels comfortable before joining in public shaming.
Short essays by Ryan Calo, Gary Marx, Helen Nissenbaum, Frank Pasquale, Deborah Peel, Danielle Citron, Michael Froomkin, and Pamela Samuelson, among others.
From Kirkus Reviews: “A provocative excursion to the darker side of human nature set free by the anonymous and unregulated boundaries of cyberspace.” From B&N Review: “It is Bartlett’s plentiful and fascinating interviews with the denizens of the dark net that make his book so compelling… Quite worrying, a bit disgusting, highly voyeuristic, and occasionally…
From Stiennon’s synopsis of his book: “There Will Be Cyberwar traces the origins of network-centric warfighting from the Taiwan Straits Crisis of 1995-96 to the creation of US Cyber Command. It raises the specter of future wars–not too distant–where adversaries take advantage of vulnerabilities in sensors, weapons, and command and control, to dominate the battle…
