None of Your Damn Business

Lawrence Cappello, None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age (2019)

From Sarah Igo (author ofΒ The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America):Β β€œTracing a century of debates on topics from national security to reproductive rights,Β None of Your Damn BusinessΒ offers a lively, instructive account of Americans’ ambivalent (and often muddled) thinking about privacy”

The Rise of Big Data Policing

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (2019)

STARRED Kirkus Review:Β β€œIn an important book that goes to the heart of issues at the forefront of contemporary life, Ferguson examines how police departments are now using supposedly β€˜objective’data-driven surveillance technologies to work more effectively in a budget-cutting era and to avoid claims of racial bias. In this engaging, well-written narrative, based on studies and…

Smart Surveillance

Ric Simmons, Smart Surveillance: How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century (2019)

From the book description:Β β€œSimmons takes a broad look at the effect of new technologies and privacy, arguing that advances in technology can enhance our privacy and our security at the same time. This book will appeal to academics and students in the field of law, criminology, and political science, and will be of interest to…