digital rights

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy  · 15 Jan 2025  · 209pp  · 63,332 words

forums for deliberation. Such tools have been adopted by pirate parties in various European countries (parties that are focused on issues around information freedom and digital rights), among others. One key issue that plagues democracy in practice is that democratic deliberation and decision-making requires time, resources, and effort, especially when we

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

Commerce, and Japan Business Council in Europe submitted comments at the consultation stage.54 On the civil society side, several European NGOs such as European Digital Rights were active but also received support from foreign NGOs such as the Australian Cyberspace Law and Policy Center and the American Center for Democracy & Technology

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in Europe.174 Legal challenges are also pending before European courts. Thus far, the Privacy Shield was unsuccessfully challenged by a NGO called Digital Rights Ireland, as the ECJ held that Digital Rights Ireland lacked standing to sue.175 La Quadrature du Net, one of the parties that applied to intervene in support of

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Digital Rights Ireland, also launched its own challenge of the Privacy Shield, which is still pending before the ECJ.176 The Privacy Shield may also falter if

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(Dec. 21, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/technology/europe-us-data-privacy.html (on file with author). 175.Case T‑670/16, Digital Rights Ireland Ltd. v. Commission, ECLI:EU:T:2017:838. 176.Case T-738/16, La Quadrature du Net and Others v. Commission, ECLI:EU:T

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

by Andrew Keen  · 1 Mar 2018  · 308pp  · 85,880 words

Measures sterner than self-regulation are certainly needed. “Facebook will be driven to remove content only if it could hurt its profit margin,” notes one digital rights activist in Brussels.35 And this is supported by a May 2017 Guardian report that quotes an internal Facebook document saying that moderators should block

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth  · 9 Feb 2021  · 651pp  · 186,130 words

years or more, and asks only that sellers report biannual sales in return. Pen-testers, exploit brokers, and spyware makers argue encryption controls are adequate; digital rights activists call that ludicrous. Once it became clear the U.S. would not adopt Europe’s stricter rules, several spyware sellers and zero-day brokers

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of whom reported receiving a series of strange, increasingly menacing text messages with links they feared might be NSO’s spyware. I convened with Mexican digital rights activists and Citizen Lab, which examined the messages and confirmed that each was an attempt to install Pegasus spyware. Other than being from Mexico, I

Alex's Adventures in Numberland

by Alex Bellos  · 3 Apr 2011  · 437pp  · 132,041 words

turned the search for primes into a quasi-political pursuit. As a mark of the symbolic importance of the project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights campaign group, has since 1999 offered money for each prime whose digits reach the next order of magnitude. The 45th Mersenne prime was the first

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier  · 6 May 2013  · 510pp  · 120,048 words

of activations, cut, copy, and paste. The right to copy files on the Internet is held up as a form of free speech in the digital rights community. The Internet has even been described as a giant copying machine.1 But copying on a network is actually rather odd and at the

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would bring about a balance of rights and responsibility while at the same time reducing friction. That’s a rare, magical combination. Hackles in the digital rights movement are usually raised so high that it’s often hard to see past the fears. There’s an absurd but entrenched fear that any

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in real life than new kinds of civil rights along the lines of digital privacy. There are always tricky questions about how to interpret a digital right. You probably agree that it’s still okay to be photographed in public, in a pre-network-age sense, but it also might feel creepy

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, 230, 241–43, 350 power of, 147–49, 167 punishing vs. rewarding, 169–74, 182, 183 tree-shaped, 241–42, 243, 246 see also Internet digital rights movement, 225–26 digital technology, 2–3, 7–8, 15–16, 18, 31, 40, 43, 50–51, 132, 208 dignity, 51–52, 73–74, 92

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen and the US Bill of Rights. In her book Consent of the Networked, journalist and digital rights advocate Rebecca MacKinnon makes this point: “No company will ever be perfect—just as no sovereign will ever be perfect no matter how well intentioned

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

sees the traffic as it flows around the Internet, such as the local Starbucks Wi-Fi connection you use. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights and privacy advocacy group, has also launched a program known as HTTPS Everywhere to promote the use of encryption in all our Internet browser traffic

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

by Frank Pasquale  · 17 Nov 2014  · 320pp  · 87,853 words

value of ordinary Internet users’ work and play. When one gadfly called Google out as a parasite extracting value created by others, law professor and digital rights activist Lawrence Lessig answered: “In the same sense you could say that all of the value in the Mona Lisa comes from the paint, that

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston  · 14 Aug 2008  · 468pp  · 233,091 words

protest. I forget what the proposed legislation was. Livingston: Was new legislation a big concern? Brady: Absolutely. Just a few things here and there—copyrights, digital rights written in a slightly different way—and we could have a different Internet. Tim Brady 137 Livingston: Do you remember any other interesting new turning

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

by Clive Thompson  · 11 Sep 2013  · 397pp  · 110,130 words

Four Battlegrounds

by Paul Scharre  · 18 Jan 2023

Data and the City

by Rob Kitchin,Tracey P. Lauriault,Gavin McArdle  · 2 Aug 2017

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

by Morgan G. Ames  · 19 Nov 2019  · 426pp  · 117,775 words

The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism

by David Golumbia  · 25 Sep 2016  · 87pp  · 25,823 words

Peak: Secrets From the New Science of Expertise

by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool  · 4 Apr 2016  · 378pp  · 110,408 words

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 5 Nov 2013  · 501pp  · 145,943 words

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

by William Poundstone  · 4 Jan 2012  · 260pp  · 77,007 words

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett  · 12 Jun 2017  · 390pp  · 109,870 words

Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet

by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, David Segal, Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Laurie, Ron Paul, Mike Masnick, Kim Dotcom, Tiffiniy Cheng, Alexis Ohanian, Nicole Powers and Josh Levy  · 30 Apr 2013  · 452pp  · 134,502 words

The Googlization of Everything:

by Siva Vaidhyanathan  · 1 Jan 2010  · 281pp  · 95,852 words

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

by Douglas B. Laney  · 4 Sep 2017  · 374pp  · 94,508 words

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

by Ken Auletta  · 4 Jun 2018  · 379pp  · 109,223 words

Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It

by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert  · 4 Jun 2018  · 244pp  · 66,977 words

Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski  · 18 Apr 2022  · 414pp  · 117,581 words

Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children

by Susan Linn  · 12 Sep 2022  · 415pp  · 102,982 words

Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life

by Alan B. Krueger  · 3 Jun 2019

The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

by Katharina Pistor  · 27 May 2019  · 316pp  · 117,228 words

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen  · 13 Sep 2021

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

by Clay Shirky  · 28 Feb 2008  · 313pp  · 95,077 words

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet

by Justin Peters  · 11 Feb 2013  · 397pp  · 102,910 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

The Great Firewall of China

by James Griffiths;  · 15 Jan 2018  · 453pp  · 114,250 words

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

by Jeanette Winterson  · 15 Mar 2021  · 256pp  · 73,068 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

by Kashmir Hill  · 19 Sep 2023  · 487pp  · 124,008 words

Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

by Becky Bond and Zack Exley  · 9 Nov 2016  · 227pp  · 71,675 words

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

Demystifying Smart Cities

by Anders Lisdorf

eBoys

by Randall E. Stross  · 30 Oct 2008  · 381pp  · 112,674 words

Snowden's Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance

by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge  · 29 Mar 2020  · 159pp  · 42,401 words

What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence

by John Brockman  · 5 Oct 2015  · 481pp  · 125,946 words

Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons  · 22 Oct 2018  · 252pp  · 78,780 words

The Connected Company

by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal  · 2 Dec 2014  · 372pp  · 89,876 words

Higher-Order Perl: A Guide to Program Transformation

by Mark Jason Dominus  · 14 Mar 2005  · 525pp  · 149,886 words

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe  · 6 Dec 2016  · 254pp  · 76,064 words

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant  · 25 Sep 2023  · 524pp  · 154,652 words

This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web

by Tim Berners-Lee  · 8 Sep 2025  · 347pp  · 100,038 words

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn  · 3 Jun 2019  · 302pp  · 85,877 words

Netflixed: The Epic Battle for America's Eyeballs

by Gina Keating  · 10 Oct 2012  · 347pp  · 91,318 words

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 9 Sep 2019  · 327pp  · 84,627 words

We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory

by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin  · 1 Oct 2018

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

by Marc Randolph  · 16 Sep 2019  · 334pp  · 102,899 words

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency

by Micah L. Sifry  · 19 Feb 2011  · 212pp  · 49,544 words

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz  · 1 Mar 2013  · 567pp  · 122,311 words

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation

by Jono Bacon  · 1 Aug 2009  · 394pp  · 110,352 words

Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free

by Cody Wilson  · 10 Oct 2016  · 246pp  · 70,404 words

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro  · 30 Aug 2021  · 345pp  · 92,063 words

The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire

by Keach Hagey  · 25 Jun 2018  · 499pp  · 131,113 words

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

by Vauhini Vara  · 8 Apr 2025  · 301pp  · 105,209 words

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman  · 16 Sep 2018

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka  · 15 Jan 2024  · 321pp  · 105,480 words

The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth

by Guillaume Pitron  · 14 Jun 2023  · 271pp  · 79,355 words

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

by Madhumita Murgia  · 20 Mar 2024  · 336pp  · 91,806 words

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams  · 11 Mar 2025  · 370pp  · 115,318 words

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

by Parmy Olson  · 284pp  · 96,087 words

Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz  · 8 Jul 2024  · 259pp  · 89,637 words

Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers

by Michael Schrenk  · 19 Aug 2009  · 371pp  · 78,103 words

Britain Etc

by Mark Easton  · 1 Mar 2012  · 411pp  · 95,852 words

Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness

by Jon Kabat-Zinn  · 23 Sep 2013  · 706pp  · 237,378 words

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss  · 6 Dec 2016  · 669pp  · 210,153 words

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips  · 23 Jun 2015  · 210pp  · 56,667 words

Choose Yourself!

by James Altucher  · 14 Sep 2013  · 230pp  · 76,655 words

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski  · 5 Mar 2019  · 202pp  · 62,901 words

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

by Eric Klinenberg  · 11 Jul 2002  · 440pp  · 128,813 words

The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 14 Jul 2015  · 138pp  · 41,353 words

The Road to Character

by David Brooks  · 13 Apr 2015  · 353pp  · 110,919 words