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        POLITICAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance (see also SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance)

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        Privacy’s Defender

        Privacy's Defender

        Privacy's Defender

        My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

        by Cindy Cohn

        ISBN: 9780262051248

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 10, 2026

        A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know it.
        Interception

        Interception

        Interception

        State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks

        by Bernard Keenan

        ISBN: 9780262552578

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 27, 2025

        A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.
        Differential Privacy

        Differential Privacy

        Differential Privacy

        by Simson L. Garfinkel

        ISBN: 9780262551656

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 25, 2025

        A robust yet accessible introduction to the idea, history, and key applications of differential privacy—the gold standard of algorithmic privacy protection.
        Tor

        Tor

        Tor

        From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

        by Ben Collier

        ISBN: 9780262548182

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 16, 2024

        A biography of Tor—a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.
        We, the Data

        We, the Data

        We, the Data

        Human Rights in the Digital Age

        by Wendy H. Wong

        ISBN: 9780262048576

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 10, 2023

        A rallying call for extending human rights beyond our physical selves—and why we need to reboot rights in our data-intensive world.
        Data and Democracy at Work

        Data and Democracy at Work

        Data and Democracy at Work

        Advanced Information Technologies, Labor Law, and the New Working Class

        by Brishen Rogers

        ISBN: 9780262545136

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 21, 2023

        An exploration of how major companies have used advanced information technologies to limit worker power, and how labor law reform could reverse that trend.
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