From Barbara McDonald, University of Sydney Law School, Gazette of Law and Journalism: “Highly readable, with the editors and authors the Who’s Who of privacy law, and each chapter providing interesting factual or contextual background to what might otherwise be rather dry or complex legal arguments in the judgments … if you are interested in…
From Greg Grandin, professor of history, Yale University: “Petra Molnar’s The Walls Have Eyes is an unnerving look at the use of artificial intelligence for border surveillance—how governments and private business are forcing the most vulnerable and desperate of people through a virtual sieve, which captures bits of their being for profit and discipline. We…
From Charles Raab, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh: “O’Hara gives us a refreshingly provocative, learned, distinctive and lively book about privacy that will stimulate important debates.” From Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: “How should we talk about privacy? Before you answer that question, read this book.”
From Ben Tarnoff, New Yorker: “A radiantly original contribution to a conversation gravely in need of new thinking…takes up familiar fixations of tech discourse―privacy, mental health, civic strife―but puts them into such a new and surprising arrangement that they are nearly unrecognizable…Lawyers like to make privacy about process. Pressly makes it about power.” From John…
Original and insightful, Data Protection Law and Emotion offers a unique contribution to a contentious debate that will appeal to students and academics in data protection and privacy, policymakers, practitioners, and regulators.
This interdisciplinary book takes readers on an intellectual journey into a wide range of issues and cutting-edge ideas to tackle our ever-evolving digital landscape. The first half of the book focuses on issues related to the GDPR and data. The second half of the book shifts focus to novel issues and ideas that drive our…
This book covers a range of topics, including: data protection risks in European retail banks; data protection, privacy legislation, and litigation in China; synthetic data generation as a privacy-preserving technique for the training of machine learning models; effectiveness of privacy consent dialogues; legal analysis of the role of individuals in data protection law; and the…
The right to privacy is one of the rights enshrined in international human rights law. It has been a topic of interest for both academic and non-academic audiences around the world. However, with the increasing digitalisation of modern life, protecting one’s privacy has become more complicated. Both state and non-state organizations make frequent interventions in…
From Jonathan Sterne, Professor of Culture and Technology, McGill University: “At once fascinating and terrifying, The Secret Life of Data offers a kaleidoscopic view of the industries and technologies that collect, mine, churn, and trade our data, and what to do about them.” From Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, The University of Virginia: “I…
From David Murakami Wood, Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa: “This book is direct, impatient (in the best way possible), and urgent. It doesn’t waste time summarizing all the things we already know about privacy in the United States, but instead asks, What is to be done? We need a book like this.”