Notable Privacy and Security Books – 2025

Tim Wu, The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity (2025)

Tiffany Jenkins, Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life (2025)

Teresa “T” Troester-Falk, So You Got the Privacy Officer Title. Now What?(2025)

Simson L. Garfinkel, Differential Privacy (2025)

Sille Obelitz Søe, Tanja Wiehn, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, and Bjarki Valtýsson, Beyond Privacy: People, Practices, Politics(2025)

Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (2025)

Sandra Matz, Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior (2025)

Ryan Calo, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach (2025)

Robert Stribley, Design for Privacy: Keeping Personal Information Private (2025)

Rebecca Lemov, The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion (2025)

Ray Brescia, The Private Is Political: Identity and Democracy in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2025)

Rainer Mühlhoff, The Ethics of AI: Power, Critique, Responsibility (2025)

Orren Kerr, The Digial Fourth Amendment (2025)

Oren Bar-Gill and Cass R. Sunstein, Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2025)

Michael Steinberger, The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (2025)

Michael Filimowicz, Privacy: Algorithms and Society (2025)

Martin Eiermann, The Limiting Principle: How Privacy Became a Public Issue (2025)

Mark Leiser, Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law: AI’s Hidden Influence on Our Digital Experience (2025)

Keach Hagey, The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future (2025)

Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI (2025)

Hideyuki Matsumi, Dara Hallinan, Diana Dimitrova, Eleni Kosta, and Paul De Hert, Data Protection and Privacy, Volume 16: Ideas That Drive Our Digital World (2025)

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025)

Edina Harbinja, Digital Death, Digital Assets and Post-mortem Privacy: Theory, Technology and the Law (2025)

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

Daniel J. Solove, Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History(2025)

Aaron Mendelsohn, Operationalizing Data Protection & Privacy (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)

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