Privacy and data - but not boring

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3 participants (20 books)

29 Jul 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Mix of fiction and non-fiction books about tech, privacy and data protection (or lack of) BUT ones that are interesting for those that don't usually read non fiction 

Challenge Books

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Him by J.D. Kirk

Him

J.D. Kirk

9 hours, 28 minutes • audio • 2025

fiction technology thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein

Data Feminism

Strong Ideas

Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein

7 hours, 37 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction computer science feminism science technology challenging informative slow-paced
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

9 hours, 25 minutes • audio • 2019

nonfiction feminism gender science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier

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

Bruce Schneier

448 pages • paperback • 2015

nonfiction politics science technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Shoshana Zuboff

704 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative slow-paced
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Glenn Greenwald

260 pages • hardcover • 2014

nonfiction history politics technology challenging informative medium-paced
The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information by Oscar H Gandy

The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information

Oscar H Gandy

352 pages • hardcover

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Neil Postman

240 pages • paperback • 1992

nonfiction philosophy sociology technology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates

The New Age of Sexism

Laura Bates

8 hours, 35 minutes • audio • 2025

nonfiction feminism technology informative medium-paced
Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy by Amy Gajda

Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy

Amy Gajda

400 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced