Books like Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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.

Cathy O'Neil warns of hidden mathematical models that shape decisions from education to finance, showing how they can reinforce inequality and threaten democracy amid the rise of big data.

Bruce Schneier’s investigative analysis explores the growth of Mass surveillance in the United States, examining how data collection, electronic surveillance, and national security practices shape privacy and social control.

Safiya Umoja Noble exposes how search engine algorithms embed and amplify sexist and racist biases, especially against women of color, revealing a digital environment that privileges whiteness and marginalizes people of color.

'Automating Inequality' exposes how data‑driven systems in health, housing, and child welfare perpetuate discrimination against the poor, revealing the hidden tech—often invisible—policing that shapes American policy.

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