Books like The transparent society by David Brin

A tech‑savvy employee’s journey into a powerful internet company spirals from ambition to obsession, revealing the dark side of data privacy, social media, and a future where surveillance and corporate control blur boundaries.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

Cory Doctorow examines how copyright law shapes the digital age, exploring the challenges and opportunities for both small artists and major record labels in today’s creative industries.

A collection of Cory Doctorow’s essays and articles exploring the impact of copyright, intellectual property, and digital media on creativity and society.

A daring adventure on Jijo as human settlers and sapient beings confront genocide and a hidden secret that could alter their fate.

Obfuscation presents practical tools and ethical arguments for using misleading or ambiguous data to counter electronic surveillance, empowering everyday users to protect privacy against governments, corporations, and hackers.

Explores America’s emerging cyberculture, blending technology, psychedelic exploration, and digital communities, through firsthand interviews with innovators, artists, and thinkers shaping the digital frontier.

James Bridle examines how rising technological complexity and data overload create a new Dark Age, revealing the limits of our understanding and the ways power shapes the digital world.

Cory Doctorow argues that major tech platforms turn social media into monopolistic prisons, and proposes interoperability as the key to reclaiming personal data and freedom from corporate control.

As we spend more time staring at TVs and computers - 'windows' full of moving images, texts, and icons - how the world is framed has become as important as what is in the frame. This book examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialised reality seen on the screen.

"In No Place to Hide, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-terror initiatives to create something entirely new: a security-industrial complex. Drawing on his years of investigation, O'Harrow shows how the government now depends on burgeoning private reservoirs of information about almost every aspect of our lives to promote homeland security and fight the war on terror." "Consider the following: When you use your cell phone, the phone company knows where you are and when. If you use a discount card, your grocery and prescription purchases are recorded, profiled, and analyzed. Many new cars have built-in devices that enable companies to track from afar details about your movements. Software and information companies can even generate graphical link-analysis charts illustrating exactly how each person in a room is related to every other - through jobs, roommates, family, and the like. Almost anyone can buy a dossier on you, including almost everything it takes to commit identity theft, for less than fifty dollars." "O'Harrow tells the inside stories of key players in this new world, from software inventors to counterintelligence officials. He reveals how the government is creating a national intelligence infrastructure with the help of private companies. And he examines the impact of this new security system on our traditional notions of civil liberties, autonomy, and privacy, and the ways it threatens to undermine some of our society's most cherished values, even while offering us a sense of security."--BOOK JACKET

Chris Finan’s sweeping history traces the evolution of free speech in America from the Palmer Raids and Red Scares to the Patriot Act, highlighting key legal battles, public figures, and the ongoing struggle for civil liberties.

In defining privacy as "the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated," Privacy and Freedom (1967) laid the philosophical groundwork for current debates about technology and personal freedom, and is considered a foundational text in the field of privacy law.

In a near‑future Europe where digital progress and a universal basic income called ‘Freiheitsgeld’ ensure universal welfare, a politician’s death and a journalist’s murder trigger a tense investigation.