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Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2025

Daniel J. Solove, On Privacy and Technology (2025)

Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2024

Vagelis Papakonstantinou and Paul De Hert, The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU (2024)

Urs Gasser and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI (2024)

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

Paul Wragg, Peter Coe and Paul Mitchell, Landmark Cases in Privacy Law (2024)

Özgür Heval Çınar and Aysem Diker Vanberg: The Right to Privacy Revisited: Different International Perspectives (2024)

Meg Leta Jones, The Character of Consent: The History of Cookies and the Future of Technology Policy (2024)

Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy, The Ordinal Society (2024)

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

Lindsay Weinberg, Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age (2024)

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

Janet S. Loengard, Light, Privacy, and Neighbors: Windows in Late Medieval and Early Modern London (2024)

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

Hilke Schellmann, The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now (2024)

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)

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

Daniel J. Solove & Paul M. Schwartz, Privacy Law Fundamentals (2024)

Damian Clifford, Data Protection Law and Emotion (2024)

Carissa Véliz, The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance (2024)

Byron Tau, Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State (2024)

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference (2024)

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

Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2023

Valerie Lyons and Todd Fitzgerald, The Privacy Leader Compass: A Comprehensive Business-Oriented Roadmap for Building and Leading Practical Privacy Programs (2023)

Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks (2023)

Paul Gowder, The Networked Leviathan (2023)

Mustafa Suleyman, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma (2023)

Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (2023)

Mark MacCarthy, Regulating Digital Industries: How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy and Ensure Free Speech (2023)

Kashmir Hill: Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (2023)

Joy Buolamwini, Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines (2023)

Jeff Kosseff, Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation (2023)

Ignacio Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy, Harm and Power in the Information Economy (2023)

Ifeoma Ajunwa, The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace (2023)

Hideyuki Matsumi et al. (Editors), Data Protection and Privacy in Transitional Times (2023)

Gianclaudio Malgieri, Vulnerability and Data Protection Law (2023)

Gaia Bernstein, Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies (2023)

Elizabeth M. Renieris, Beyond Data: Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse (2023)

Daniel J. Solove & Paul M. Schwartz, Information Privacy Law, 8th Edition (2023)

Ari Waldman, Advanced Introduction to U.S. Data Privacy Law (2023)

Anupam Chander & Haochen Sun, Data Sovereignty: From the Digital Silk Road to the Return of the State (2023)

Anu Bradford, Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (2023)

Alice E. Marwick, The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (2023)

Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2022

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge: Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future (2022)

Sarah Lamdan: Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information (2022)

Palmer Rampell: Genres of Privacy in Postwar America (2022)

Orly Lobel: The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future (2022)

Mikko Hypponen: If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable (2022)

Maurice E. Stucke: Breaking Away: How to Regain Control Over Our Data, Privacy, and Autonomy (2022)

Mark Andrejevic, Neil Selwyn: Facial Recognition (2022)

Karen Levy: Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance (2022)

Josh Chin, Liza Lin: Surveillance State: Inside China’s Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control (2022)

Jody Westby: D&O Guide to Cyber Governance: Fiduciary Duties in the Digital Age (2022)

Jodi Daniels: Data Reimagined: Building Trust One Byte at a Time (2022)

Jeff Kosseff, The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech (2022)

Jacqueline Lipton: Our Data, Ourselves (2022)

David Lyon: Pandemic Surveillance (2022)

Danielle Citron, The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022)

Daniel J. Solove, Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It (2022)

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Simson L. Garfinkel: Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (2022)

Brian Hochman: The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States (2022)

Annie Machon: The Privacy Mission: Achieving Ethical Data for Our Lives Online (2022)

Amy Gajda: Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy (2022)

Amy B. Zegart: Spies, Lies, and Algortihms: The History and Future of American Intelligence (2022)

Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2021

Oscar H. Gandy Jr., The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy Of Personal Information (2021)

Neil Richards, Why Privacy Matters (2021)

Neil Daswani & Moudy Elbayadi, Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone (2021)

Michael S. Mireles & Jack L. Hobaugh Jr, Cybersecurity Law: An Evolving Field (2021)

Matthew Crain, Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet (2021)

Lucy E. Thompson, Gender, Surveillance, and Literature in the Romantic Period: 1780–1830 (2021)

Larry Frohman, The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany (2021)

Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021)

Joshua A. T. Fairfield, Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up? (2021)

Joseph Turow, The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen In to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet (2021)

Jon Fasman, We See It All: Liberty and Justice in an Age of Perpetual Surveillance (2021)

James Dempsey, Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals (2021)

Jacqueline Kimmell, The Privacy Prescription: Why Health Data Privacy Is in Critical Condition and How to Fix It (2021)

Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy through Careful Design (2021)

Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, & Daniel Huttenlocher, The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (2021)

Geoffrey Cain, The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future (2021)

Estee Beck & Les Hutchinson Campos, Privacy Matters: Conversations about Surveillance within and beyond the Classroom (2021)

Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021)

Derek Bambauer, Justin Hurwitz, David Thaw, & Charlotte Tschider, Cybersecurity: An Interdisciplinary Problem (2021)

David Grant, Privacy in the Age of Neuroscience (2021)

Carissa Veliz, Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data (2021)

Ari Ezra Waldman, Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (2021)

Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2011 to 2020

Liquid Surveillance

Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon, Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation (2012)

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Woodrow Hartzog, Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies (2018)

Everyday Surveillance

William G. Staples, Everyday Surveillance: Vigilance and Visibility in Postmodern Life (2013)

Automating Inequality 1

Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (2018)

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Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data (2018)

The Frontier of Social Evolution

Timothy M Jurgensen, Privacy: The Frontier of Social Evolution (2013)

Thomas Jacobs, Cyberbullying Law (2020)

Law of AI and Smart Machines

Theodore Franklin Claypoole, Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines: Understanding A.I. and the Legal Impact (2018)

Surveillance or Security

Susan Landau, Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping (2013)

Listening In

Susan Landau, Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age (2017)

Privacy and the Past Research Law Archives Ethics

Susan C. Lawrence, Privacy and the Past: Research, Law, Archives, Ethics (2016)

Stuart N. Brotman, Privacy’s Perfect Storm: Digital Policy for the Post-Pandemic Times (2020)

More Essential than Ever

Stephen J. Schulhofer, More Essential than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century (2012)

The googlization of everything

Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (2011)

Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019)

Scott Skinner-Thompson, Privacy at the Margins (2020)

The Offensive Internet

Saul Levmore & Martha C. Nussbaum, editors, The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation (2012)

Known Citizen

Sarah E. Igo, The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America (2018)

Sarah Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion and the Future of Policing (2020)

Laws of image

Samantha Barbas, Laws of Image: Privacy and Publicity in America (2015)

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Samantha Barbas, Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Notorious Scandal Magazine (2018)

Privacy revisited

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Privacy Revisited: A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone (2016)

Black Code

Ronald J. Deibert, Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet (2013)

After Snowden

Ronald Goldfarb (editor), After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age (May 2105)

They know everything about you

Robert Scheer, They Know Everything About You (2015)

Unauthorized Access

Robert H. Sloan & Richard Warner, Unauthorized Access: The Crisis in Online Privacy and Security (2013)

There will be cyberwar

Richard Stiennon, There Will be Cyberwar (2015)

On The End of Privacy

Richard E. Miller, On the End of Privacy: Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World (2019)

Smart Surveillance

Ric Simmons, Smart Surveillance: How to Interpret the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-First Century (2019)

The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance

Rebecca Herold and Kevin Beaver, The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance (2014)

Strategic Privacy by Design 1

R. Jason Cronk, Strategic Privacy by Design (2018)

Blockchain and the Law 1

Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright, Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code (2018)

Identity Trade

Nora A. Draper, The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online (2019)

Intellectual Privacy

Neil Richards, Intellectual Privacy, Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age (2015)

Privacy Due Process and the Computational Turn

Mireille Hildebrandt and Katja de Vries, editors, Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn (2013)

The Privacy Engineers Manifesto

Michelle Finneran Dennedy, Jonathan Fox, and Thomas R. Finneran, The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto (2014)

The rise of the right to know

Michael Schudson, The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975 (2015)

Artificial Unintelligence 1

Meredith Broussard, Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (2018)

Megan Richardson, The Right to Privacy: Origins and Influence of a Nineteenth-Century Idea (2020)

lol...OMG

Matt Ivester, lol . . . OMG! (2011)

Camera Power

Mary D. Fan, Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data (2019)

Cult of the Constitution

Mary Anne Franks, The Cult of the Constitution (2019)

Maria Helen Murphy, Surveillance and the Law (2020)

Privacy in the modern age

Marc Rotenberg, Julia Horwitz, and Jeramie Scott editors, Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions (2015)

Linnette Attai, Student Data Privacy: Managing Vendor Relationships (2020)

Protecting Student Data Privacy

Linnette Attai, Protecting Student Data Privacy: Classroom Fundamentals (2019)

Leslie N. Gruis, Privacy, Past, Present and Future (2020)

Data Privacy Law

Lee A. Bygrave, Data Privacy Law: An International Perspective (2014)

None of Your Damn Business

Lawrence Cappello, None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age (2019)

the future of foreign intelligence

Laura K. Donohue, The Future of Foreign Intelligence: Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Age (2016)

Poverty of Privacy Rights

Khiara M. Bridges, The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017)

Risky Business

Khaled El Emam, editor, Risky Business: Sharing Health Data While Protecting Privacy (2013)

Ghost in the wires

Kevin Mitnick, Ghost in the Wires (2011)

The art of invisibility

Kevin Mitnick & Robert Vamosi, The Art of Invisibility (2017)

Privacy on the ground

Kenneth A. Bamberger & Deirdre K. Mulligan, Privacy on the Ground (2015)

Kingdom of Lies

Kate Fazzini, Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime (2019)

Between Truth and Power

Julie E. Cohen, Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (2019)

Dragnet nation

Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation (2014)

Creditworthy

Josh Lauer, Creditworthy: A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America (2017)

The Aisles Have Eyes 1

Joseph Turow, The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power (2018)

Gossip

Joseph Epstein, Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit (2011)

So youve been publicly shamed

Jon Ronson, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015)

Privacy in the new media age

Jon L. Mills, Privacy in the New Media Age (2015)

Supervision

John Gilliom and Torin Monahan, SuperVision: An Introduction to the Surveillance Society (2012)

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John Cheney-Lippold, We Are Data: Algorithms and The Making of Our Digital Selves (2017)

Jill Lepore, If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (2020)

Intimate Lies and the Law

Jill Elaine Hasday, Intimate Lies and the Law (2019)

Right of Publicity

Jennifer Rothman, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World (2018)

Being Watched

Jeffrey L. Vagle, Being Watched: Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance (2017)

Words that Created the Internet

Jeff Kosseff, The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet (2019)

Public parts

Jeff Jarvis, Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live (2011)

Jef Ausloos, The Right to Erasure in EU Data Protection Law (2020)

Insecurity

Jane Frankland, InSecurity: Why a Failure to Attract and Retain Women in Cybersecurity is Making Us All Less Safe (2017)

The dark net1

Jamie Bartlett , The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld Hardcover (2015)

The Eternal Criminal Record1

James B. Jacobs, The Eternal Criminal Record (2015)

privacy in technology1

J.C. Cannon, Privacy and Technology: Standards and Practices for Engineers and Security and IT Professionals (2014)

Surveillance and Film

J. Macgregor Wise, Surveillance and Film (2016)

Privacy engineerign

Ian Oliver, Privacy Engineering: A Dataflow and Ontological Approach (2015)

Of Privacy and Power

Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman, Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (2019)

Harvard Business Review, Customer Data + Privacy (2020)

Asian Data Privacy Laws

Graham Greenleaf, Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trade and Human Rights Perspectives (2014)

Cyberspies

Gordon Corera, Cyberspies: The Secret History of Surveillance, Hacking, and Digital Espionage (2016)

No place to hide

Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014)

The art of invisibility

Gary T. Marx, Windows into the Soul: Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology (2016)

Privacy

Garret Keizer, Privacy (2012)

Cybertraps for the young

Frederick Lane, Cybertraps for the Young (2011)

Bulk Collection

Fred H. Cate & James X. Dempsey editors, Bulk Collection: Systematic Government Access to Private-Sector Data (2017)

The Black Box Society

Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (2015)

Frank Pasquale, New Laws of Robotics (2020)

Firmin Debrabander, Life After Privacy (2020)

The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy

Evan Selinger, Jules Polonetsky, and Omer Tene, The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Privacy (2018)

Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble (2011)

Efficiency Paradox

Edward Tenner, The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do (2018)

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (2019)

Cybersecurity

Edward McNicholas & Vivek K. Mohan (editors), Cybersecurity: A Practical Guide to the Law of Cyber Risk (2015)

Edited by Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Hürter, Maiken Umbach, Andreas Wirsching, Privacy Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany (2020)

Edited by Bryce Clayton Newell, Tjerk Timan, Bert-Jaap Koops, Surveillance, Privacy and Public Space (2020)

Data Selves

Deborah Lupton, Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives (2019)

Family Secrets

Deborah Cohen, Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain (2017)

I hope I dont intrude

David Vincent, I Hope I Don’t Intrude: Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2015)

The Watchman in Pieces

David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood (2013)

Fourth Amendment in Age of Surveillance

David Gray, The Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance (2017)

Hate crimes in cyberspace

Danielle Citron, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014)

Daniel Solove, Paul Schwartz, EU Data Protection and the GDPR (2020)

Daniel J. Solove, Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (2011)

Its Complicated

Danah Boyd, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (2014)

Habeas Data

Cyrus Farivar, Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech (2018)

The architecture of privacy

Courtney Bowman, Ari Gesher, John K Grant, Daniel Slate, & Elissa Lerner, The Architecture of Privacy (2015)

Colleen Eils, The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx and Asian American Metafictions (2020)

Digital identity

Clare Sullivan, Digital Identity (2011)

Transborder Data Flow Regulation and Data Privacy Law

Christopher Kuner, Transborder Data Flow Regulation and Data Privacy Law (2013)

The art of invisibility

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (2016)

Nobodys Victim

Carrie Goldberg, Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs and Trolls (2019)

Liars and outliers

Bruce Schneier, Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (2012).

Data and Goliath

Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath (2015)

Click Here to Kill Everybody 1

Bruce Schneier, Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World (2018)

Re Engineering Humanity 1

Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger, Re-Engineering Humanity (2018)

Tools and Weapons

Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age (2019)

Exposed

Bernard E. Harcourt, Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (2015)

New Directions in Surveillance and Privacy

Benjamin J. Goold and Daniel Neyland, New Directions in Surveillance and Privacy (2013)

social dimensions of privacy

Beate Roessler & Dorota Mokrosinska (editors), Social Dimensions of Privacy (2015)

Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror (2020)

Privacy as Trust

Ari Ezra Waldman, Privacy as Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age (2018)

April Falcon Doss, Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care (2020)

A democratic conception of privacy

Annabelle Lever, A Democratic Conception of Privacy (2013)

Unpopular privacy

Anita Allen, Unpopular Privacy (2011)

The Rise of Big Data Policing

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement (2019)

data for the people

Andreas Weigend, Data for the People (2017)

Protecting Personal Information

Andrea Monti and Raymond Wacks, Protecting Personal Information: The Right to Privacy Reconsidered (2019)

The First Amendment Bubble

Amy Gajda, The First Amendment Bubble: How Privacy and Paparazzi Threaten a Free Press (2015)

Sexting panic

Amy Adele Hasinoff, Sexting Panic: Rethinking Criminalization, Privacy, and Consent (2015)

Aline Fuke Fachinetti, Privacy and Data Protection in Brazil: A comprehensive and Practical Guide on the LGPD (2020)

Prediction Machines 1

Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence (2018)

Threat Modeling

Adam Shostack, Threat Modeling: Designing for Security (2014)

Swiped

Adam Levin, Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves (2015)

Privacy security and accountability

Adam D. Moore (editor), Privacy, Security and Accountability: Ethics, Law and Policy (2015)

Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2000 – 2010

Notable Privacy and Security Books, 2001 – 2010
Notable Privacy and Security Books, 2000 and earlier

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