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        SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance (see also POLITICAL 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.
        Trevor Paglen

        Trevor Paglen

        Trevor Paglen

        Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations

        by Trevor Paglen

        Edited by Anthony Downey

        ISBN: 9783956795831

        Publisher: Sternberg Press

        Pub Date: August 20, 2024

        How machine learning and computer vision generate images.
        Job/Security

        Job/Security

        Job/Security

        A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security Industry

        by Danny Goodwin and Edward Schwarzschild

        Foreword by Winifred R. Poster

        Afterword by Winifred R. Poster

        ISBN: 9780262048699

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 13, 2024

        An illuminating collection of candid interviews and photographs with workers in America's burgeoning security state.
        The Secret Life of Data

        The Secret Life of Data

        The Secret Life of Data

        Navigating Hype and Uncertainty in the Age of Algorithmic Surveillance

        by Aram Sinnreich and Jesse Gilbert

        ISBN: 9780262048811

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 30, 2024

        How 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.
        Supervision

        Supervision

        Supervision

        On Motherhood and Surveillance

        Edited by Sophie Hamacher and Jessica Hankey

        ISBN: 9780262047814

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 25, 2023

        A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind anthology of art and writing exploring how surveillance impacts contemporary motherhood.
        Worn Out

        Worn Out

        Worn Out

        How Retailers Surveil and Exploit Workers in the Digital Age and How Workers Are Fighting Back

        by Madison Van Oort

        ISBN: 9780262544931

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 7, 2023

        An immersive, first-hand account of retail worker surveillance and resistance in the digital age.
        Sharenthood

        Sharenthood

        Sharenthood

        Why We Should Think before We Talk about Our Kids Online

        by Leah A. Plunkett

        Foreword by John Palfrey

        ISBN: 9780262539630

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 8, 2020

        From baby pictures in the cloud to a high school's digital surveillance system: how adults unwittingly compromise children's privacy online.
        Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things

        Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things

        Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things

        The Politics of Infrastructure Security

        by Ryan Ellis

        ISBN: 9780262538541

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 3, 2020

        An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure.
        Obfuscation

        Obfuscation

        Obfuscation

        A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest

        by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

        ISBN: 9780262529860

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 2, 2016

        How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.
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