This book is intended to contribute to a better understanding of privacy from a philosophical point of view — what it is, what is at stake in its loss, and how it relates to other rights and values. The five parts that compose this book respond to five basic questions about privacy: Where does privacy…
From Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School: “Byron Tau’s extraordinary book recounts in engrossing detail how the U.S. government exploits massive loopholes in U.S. surveillance law to purchase in vast digital bazaars the intimate personal data that Americans unwittingly spew from their phones, cars, and computers every minute of every day.…
From Eliza Griswold, author of Amity and Prosperity: “In The Algorithm, Hilke Schellmann has done the impossible: she has rendered the baffling ‘Wild West’ of AI immensely readable and approachable. Schellmann gives us the dark and hidden history of tech innovation and the marketplace through the stories of those whose lives have been smashed by…
From Karen Levy, author of Data Driven: “The Ordinal Society will enter the pantheon, both as a work of cross-cutting social theory and as a clear-eyed reflection on the stakes of digital technology. Marshalling an astonishing range of theoretical and empirical knowledge to build their argument, Fourcade and Healy compellingly demonstrate just how integral measurement…
From Mark Lemley, Stanford University: “A delightfully wide-ranging and eminently readable exploration of how laws, norms, technology, and our own thinking guide our behavior, and how we should think about it.” From Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study: “Balancing individual freedoms and the common good is ever more critical in the…
From Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker: “As artificial intelligence proliferates, more and more hinges on our ability to articulate our own value. We seem to be on the cusp of a world in which workers of all kinds—teachers, doctors, writers, photographers, lawyers, coders, clerks, and more—will be replaced with, or to some degree sidelined by,…
From Danah Doyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens: “While the cookies at the center of Meg Leta Jones’s book are not made of sugar, The Character of Consent is a sweet and delicious examination of the politics of data and privacy in our digital world.” From Sarah E. Igo, author…
