Franklin Zimring (U.C. Berkeley) writes: “This is the first sustained and analytic look at profoundly important policy on criminal records. In accessible prose, Jacobs provides a guide for legal and criminal justice scholars, practitioners and advocates, and anyone concerned with privacy, employment policy, and race relations. A very important book.” Milton Heumann (Rutgers University) writes:…
This is a great collection of essays by Thomas Blanton, David Cole, John Mills, Hodding Carter, Barry Siegel, and Edward Wasserman. Topics include the Snowden leaks, the state secrets doctrine, journlaists and whistleblowers, classification of government documents, and more.
Clay Calvert (U. Florida College of Journalism and Communications) writes: “Mills explores possible modernization of the intrusion tort, calls for greater weight to be placed on human dignity interests, suggests redefining personal space to fit our times, and offers multiple approaches for recalibrating the delicate balance between press freedom and privacy rights.” Chris Hoofnagle (U.C.…
Bruce Schneier examines NSA surveillance, the Snowden revelations, and more. Schneier is a wise and compelling thinker. Everything he says is worth listening to. From Yocai Benkler, (Yale Law School): “Whether you worry about government surveillance in the post-Snowden era, or about Facebook and Google manipulating you based on their vast data collections, Schneier, the…
Intellectual Privacy is a profound and compelling account of how privacy is essential to freedom to speak, write, read, think, create, and explore new ideas. Neil Richards demonstrates how surveillance by the government and companies threaten those core values at the foundation of any democratic society. With great thoughtfulness and engaging writing, Intellectual Privacy is…
Practical and comprehensive guide to anticipating and addressing threats when designing software and technology
This is a classic must-read book on privacy, originally written in 1967 and finally back in print in this new edition, with a preface written by me. Excerpt from my preface: “At the core of the book is one of the most enduring discussions of the definition and value of privacy. Privacy is a very…
An insightful historical account of privacy in colonial America.
A good historical account of the development of the privacy torts, with an extensive discussion of how the torts evolved in each decade following Warren and Brandeis’s seminal 1890 article on privacy.
A classic. Although written over 30 years ago, this book captures the privacy problems that we are facing today in the Information Age.