Books like We, the Data by Wendy H. Wong

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.

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.

"Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also decide what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities we inhabit in the process. We have little control over who we algorithmically are. Our identities are made useful not for us--but for someone else. Through a series of entertaining and engaging examples, John Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who want to wrest back some freedom in our increasingly surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world." -- Publisher's description