Privacy & Surveillance
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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
$22.95 Read more“A must-read…It reveals important truths.”
“One of the finest books on information security published so far in this century–easily accessible, tightly argued, superbly
–Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer- Author: Buchanan, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271025
- Language: English
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Battlefield America: The War on the American People
$19.95 Add to cartPolice forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to … [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1590795229
- Language: English
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The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media
$32.50 Read moreA compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequality
Online privacy is under constant attack by social media and- Author: Marwick, Alice E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300229623
- Language: English
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Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
$24.95 Read more“For all the informational convenience the internet offers, it is deeply flawed. How can it be improved? Writer Ben Tarnoff proposes one possibility in this intriguing book, which urges the developmen… [more below]
- Author: Tarnoff, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1839762020
- Language: English
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Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
$30.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2022
“Gajda’s chronicle reveals an enduring tension between principles of free speech and respect for individuals’ private lives. …just the sort of road map w- Author: Gajda, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1984880748
- Language: English
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumu- Author: Harari, Yuval Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 059373422X
- Language: English
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The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
$19.95 Add to cartHow Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine
**WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE**
**Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel’s milita- Author: Loewenstein, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1839762098
- Language: English
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The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life
$35.00 Add to cartA visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today’s hypermediated world–not just as a political right but as the key to a life worth living.
The parts of our lives that are not being surveil- Author: Pressly, Lowry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 067426052X
- Language: English
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
$19.95 Read moreA USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Winner of the 2024 Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity “An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our di- Author: Doctorow, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292141
- Language: English
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My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir
$30.00 Read moreBarrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. This is his story.
After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him i- Author: Brown, Barrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374217017
- Language: English
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State
$21.99 Add to cartNamed a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post
As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, ba
- Author: Strittmatter, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0063027305
- Language: English
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Beyond Woke
$19.99 Add to cartA few short years ago, Michael Rectenwald was a Marxist professor at NYU, pursuing his career and contemplating becoming a Trotskyist, when the political climate on campus – victimology, cancel-cultur
- Author: Rectenwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1943003378
- Language: English
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Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
$20.99 Add to cartA former FBI Special Agent and leading cyber-security expert offers a devastating and essential look at the misinformation campaigns, fake news, and electronic espionage operations that have become th
- Author: Watts, Clint
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062795996
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Data: Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance
$29.95 Add to cartHow data surveillance, digital forensics, and generative AI pose new long-term threats and opportunities–and how we can use them to make better decisions in the face of technological uncertainty.
In- Series: Information Society
- Author: Sinnreich, Aram
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0262048817
- Language: English
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The Voyeur’s Motel
$16.00 Add to cartOn January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your… [more below]
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 802126979
- Language: English
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Machine See, Machine Do: How Technology Mirrors Bias in Our Criminal Justice System
$16.99 Add to cart“When today’s technology relies on yesterday’s data, it will simply mirror our past mistakes and biases.”
AI and other high-tech tools embed and reinforce America’s history of prejudice and exclusion
- Author: Lin, Patrick K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637308213
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- Language: English
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Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World
$18.95 Add to cart“Timely exposé of Russia’s vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses…a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipu
- Author: Aro, Jessikka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1632461293
- Language: English
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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
$40.00 Add to cartThe internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.
In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to- Author: Levine, Yasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1610398025
- Language: English
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Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
$19.99 Add to cartFeaturing an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most sophisticated and in
- Author: Richard, Laurent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1250858674
- Language: English
