Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2024)

From Greg Grandin, professor of history, Yale University: β€œPetra Molnar’s The Walls Have Eyes is an unnerving look at the use of artificial intelligence for border surveillanceβ€”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…

Kieron O’Hara, The Seven Veils of Privacy: How Our Debates About Privacy Conceal Its Nature (2024)

From Charles Raab, Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh: β€œO’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: β€œHow should we talk about privacy? Before you answer that question, read this book.”

Lowry Pressly, The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life (2024)

From Ben Tarnoff, New Yorker: β€œA 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…

Hideyuki Matsumi, Dara Hallinan, Diana Dimitrova, Eleni Kosta and Paul De Hert: Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 16: Ideas that Drive Our Digital World (2024)

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…

Hideyuki Matsumi, Dara Hallinan, Diana Dimitrova, Eleni Kosta and Paul De Hert: Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 15: In Transitional Times (2024)

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…

Γ–zgΓΌr Heval Γ‡Δ±nar and Aysem Diker Vanberg: The Right to Privacy Revisited: Different International Perspectives (2024)

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…

Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert: The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance (2024)

From Jonathan Sterne, Professor of Culture and Technology, McGill University: β€œAt 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: β€œI…

James B. Rule, Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect (2024)

From David Murakami Wood, Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa: β€œThis 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.”