From Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois and author of An Iron Wind: “An extraordinary, inquisitive, immersing exploration of lives lived in the Third Reich, where the grit of detail and sharpness of insight exposes an entire century that stumbled in war and peace. You will be well-guided by the eloquence of the contributors and unsettled by…
From Deb Krier, Hostess of C-Suite Radio’s The Business Power Hour: “A book every American should read.” From the book description: “In the United States, many imminent threats during the twentieth century induced heightened government intrusion into the privacy of Americans. The Privacy Act of 1974 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 1978) reversed that…
From the book description: “Customer Data and Privacy: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today’s most essential thinking on customer data and privacy to help you understand the tangled interdependencies and complexities of this evolving issue. The lessons in this book will help you develop strategies that allow your company to be…
From the book description: “Developed from the casebook Information Privacy Law, this short paperback contains key cases and materials focusing on privacy issues related to the GDPR and data protection in the European Union. Topics covered include the GDPR, Schrems cases, the right to be forgotten, and international data transfers.”
From the book description: “The Brazilian Data Protection Law (Law No. 13.709 of 2018, Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais), also known as “LGPD” was established in August 2018 to remedy the lack of comprehensive privacy and data protection regulation in Brazil, profoundly changing the landscape on such protection in the country…This book is…
From Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, New York University: “Predict and Surveil is a breakthrough book, a close-up, ethnographically grounded, examination of how urban police departments are using the power of big data to try to anticipate crime and outflank criminals and how, in so doing, they risk reproducing inequality by embedding results of past discrimination…
From the book description: “Surveillance, Privacy, and Public Space problematizes our traditional understanding of ‘public space’. The chapter authors explore intertwined concepts to develop current privacy theory and frame future scholarly debate on the regulation of surveillance in public spaces. This book also explores alternative understandings of the impacts that modern living and technological progress have…
From Channette Romero, author of Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color: “This book provides truly insightful and original contributions, including the author’s brilliant attention to the politics of the archive and to the ways in which literature might be used to evade social responsibility by providing readers with…
From the book description: “The book explores how data protection law, and data subject rights in particular, enable resisting, breaking down or at the very least critically engaging with these asymmetric relationships. It concludes that despite substantial legal and practical hurdles, the GDPR’s right to erasure does play a meaningful role in furthering the fundamental…
From Laura Pollak, program specialist, Nassau BOCES: “Linnette Attai has once again created a clear and comprehensive student data privacy guide for educators. Her latest book shows how educational agencies can develop positive relationships with software vendors, establish procedures for selecting and vetting software products, and negotiate contracts with privacy in mind. A must read…