Books

Emma Martins, who was Commissioner from 2012-2023, provided these suggested books to help you make sense of and safely navigate our data-driven society:

Our outgoing Commissioner's reflections on reading

Our outgoing Commissioner's reflections on reading

November 2023

How to be a decent DPO by Martin Hoskins

October 2023

Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill

September 2023

Managing the Human Factor in Information Security by David Lacey

August 2023

Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It by Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog

July 2023

Privacy is Hard and Seven Other Myths by Jaap-Henk Hoepman

June 2023

The Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher

March 2023

Privacy, Edited by Stephen M. Cahn and Carissa Veliz

February / May 2023

Beyond Data – Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse by Elizabeth M Renieris

January 2023

A Bigger Prize: Why Competition Isn't Everything and How We Do Better - by Margaret Heffernan

December 2022

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything - Matthew Ball

November 2022

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place - by Janelle Shane

October / November 2022

We had to remove this post – Hanna Bervoets

October 2022

The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life - by Richard Seymour

August 2022

There’s a War Going on But No One Can See It – Huib Modderkolk

July 2022

“I Have Nothing to Hide”: And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy by Heidi Boghosian

May/June 2022

In the Camps – Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler

April/May 2022

Freedom to Think – the Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds by Susie Alegre

March 2022

Technology is not neutral – a short guide to technology ethics by Stephanie Hare

February 2022

Runaway Technology – Can Law Keep Up? by Joshua A T Fairfield

January 2022

The Voice Catchers by Joseph Turow

December 2021

Human Compatible – Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

November 2021

The Power of Ethical Management by Norman Vincent Peale and Kenneth Blanchard

September 2021

12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson

July 2021

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

June 2021

Artificial UnIntelligence – How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard.

April 2021

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

March 2021

Right/Wrong – How Technology Transforms our Ethics by Juan Enríquez

Feb 2021

Privacy’s Blueprint – The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies by Woodrow Hartzog

Nov 2020

Privacy is Power – Why and how you should take back control of your data by Carissa Véliz

Sept-20/Oct-20

Possible Minds 25 Ways of Looking at AI – Edited by John Brockman

Aug 2020

An Artificial Revolution On Power, Politics and AI – Ivana Bartoletti

June-20/July-20

Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking by Matthew Syed

May 2020

One Can Make a Difference by Ingrid E Newkirk

Apr 2020

Don’t be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech by Rana Foroohar

Mar 2020

Utopia for Realists by Roger Bregman

Feb 2020

Understanding Privacy by Daniel J Solove

Dec-19/Jan-20

The Trust Manifesto – What You Need to Do to Create a Better Internet by Damian Bradfield

Nov 2019

Giving Voice to Values: How to speak your mind when you know what’s right by Mary Gentile

Oct 2019

Robot Rules – Regulating Artificial Intelligence, by Jacob Turner

Aug 2019

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier.

Jul 2019

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble

Jun 2019

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

May 2019

Rethinking the Human Factor by Bruce Hallas

Apr 2019

Invisible Women – Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Mar 2019

An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Ethics – Mary Warnock Baroness Warnock (1924 – 2019)

Feb 2019

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff

Jan 2019

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari

Dec 2018

You are not a gadget - Jaron Lanier (2010)