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Kashmir Mandolin Hill's Book List Daniel Solove, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet (2007) AND Understanding Privacy (2008) Daniel Solove is a law professor at George Washington University, who has written extensively about privacy issues (including Information Privacy Law; The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age; Privacy, Information and Technology; etc.). He’s a guy that anyone looking at privacy issues should know. In Understanding Privacy, he tackles a definition of “the right to privacy” in the modern cyberage. In The Future of Reputation, he provides stories and insight about how blogs and social networking sites are dismantling our conception of privacy. Wolfgang Sofsky, Privacy: A Manifesto (2007) German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky offers a broad view of privacy and the threats to it in the modern age. The sociological approach in the book offers a broader approach to privacy, ranging from freedom of thought to the shaping of privacy in the move from the commons to private property. It offers a nice entry for meditating on privacy issues, but offers no answers. Though titled a manifesto, it’s more of a lament on the movement away from strict privacy in the modern age. MORE: Times Online Review Wired Magazine, BLOG: Threat Level Wired Magazine's blog supposedly covers "Privacy, Security, Politics, and Crime,” but privacy comes first in that tagline for a reason--it is the glue that holds the blog together. Wired also has a “Danger Room” blog for “What’s Next in National Security.” In our following of the two blogs, we would suggest “Threat Level” drop the security and politics from its tagline, and change its name to “Privacy Level.” The blog often overlaps with topics covered by EFF Deeplinks, but is more digestible, as blogs written by journalists tend to be. Wired has a special interest in file-sharing, entertainment (media/film/music issues), intellectual property, and spies. This blog tends to focus on sexier topics than EFF’s: less Congressional legislation, more funny (but important) lawsuits. MORE: Threat Level/Wired New York Civil Liberties Union, ARTICLE: Who’s Watching? Video Camera Surveillance in New York City and the Need for Public Oversight (2006) The NYCLU’s report on the number of cameras in New York City, and the threats they pose to privacy. MORE: Read it Emily Gould, New York Times Magazine, ARTICLE: Exposed (2008) Former Gawker writer Emily Gould wrote a love-it-or-hate-it article about the exhibitionism forced and fueled by blogging. The article was much discussed by new media types when it came out. MORE: Read it Peter Galison and Rob Moss, FILM: Secrecy (2008) A documentary about government secrecy -- the balance between the public right to know and the government’s need to keep information classified. MORE: Official Film Website Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, FILM: The Lives of Others (2006) Oscar-winning German drama about the Stasi’s monitoring of the citizens in East Berlin in 1984. MORE: Wikipedia Entry J.K. Peterson, Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Privacy, History, & Applications, Revised and Expanded Second Edition (2007) The origins of surveillance devices and the many ways in which they can be used. This book gets into the nitty-gritty details of current products on the market. MORE: Available online through NYU Library Jeffrey Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2001) Jeffrey Rosen is another George Washington law professor intrigued by notions of privacy, though he is not as steeped in the topic as Solove. He uses the Ken Starr investigation of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky as a leaping off point for a vigorous defense of privacy. MORE: New York Times Review of the Unwanted Gaze James Rule, Privacy in Peril: How We are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (2007) James Rule is a sociologist at Stony Brook University in New York, interested in the social roles of information. In this book, he explores how we willingly sacrifice our privacy for security and convenience. I’m willing to let Safeway track my every purchase in exchange for the discounts offered by my Safeway card, for example. The book doesn’t offer answers… but does ask whether the sacrifice of privacy is justified by efficiency and increased security. David H. Holtzman, Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy (2006) This book is nicely paired with Bailey’s Open Society Paradox. David Holtzman is a former security analyst who is more concerned about finding a balance between security and privacy than is Bailey. The book takes a practical approach to privacy, giving a historical perspective, and then launching into the mechanics behind snooping and the technology and practices for protecting privacy. Dennis Bailey, The Open Society Paradox: Why the Twenty-First Century Calls for More Openness--Not Less (2004) Dennis Bailey is a technology consultant who does security work for government clients according to this review by Privacy Fundamentals. That may explain his preference for a “more open” society. A society with less privacy is a safer society, Bailey argues, encouraging the adoption of technologies that promote transparency, such as biometrics, surveillance, facial recognition, and data mining. MORE: Review by Privacy Fundamentals Electronic Frontier Foundation, LIST-SERV: EFFector The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a stable of attorneys and activists getting themselves involved in legislative hearings and court cases related to protecting privacy. This newsletter updates subscribers on the issues and cases in which the organization has its hands. MORE: EFFector Archive Berkman Center for Internet and Society, LIST-SERV: Berkman Buzz The Berkman Center was founded in the 90’s as a place where academics could study and talk about cyberspace. The newsletter updates subscribers on the latest conversations going on among intellectuals there. Since “cyberspace” is a pretty broad topic, the topics of conversation tend to be all over the map -- e.g. a January newsletter discussed a newspaper bailout plan, Whitehouse.gov’s YouTube privacy problem, and why it’s important to blog about Africa. There’s always something of interest, and usually one or two items related to privacy issues. MORE: Berkman Center's Website Electronic Frontier Foundation, BLOG: Deeplinks The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) seeks to defend free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights on the Internet. This organization's blog focuses on the latest legal developments and news coverage of technology and privacy issues. Though the Foundation is headquartered in California, they are very plugged into what’s happening in Washington, D.C. The blog pays close attention to White House and Congressional actions that impact privacy, as well as keeping an eye on the third branch of government -- noting important legal rulings having to do with privacy issues. The blog is manned by multiple authors, including attorneys, technologists, and activists, so the posts tend to be well-informed and authoritative. MORE: Deeplinks/EFF |
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