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Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies

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Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves―even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.

In Privacy’s Blueprint, Woodrow Hartzog pushes back against this state of affairs, arguing that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products. Current legal doctrine treats technology as though it were value-neutral: only the user decides whether it functions for good or ill. But this is not so. As Hartzog explains, popular digital tools are designed to expose people and manipulate users into disclosing personal information.

Against the often self-serving optimism of Silicon Valley and the inertia of tech evangelism, Hartzog contends that privacy gains will come from better rules for products, not users. The current model of regulating use fosters exploitation. Privacy’s Blueprint aims to correct this by developing the theoretical underpinnings of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. The law can demand encryption. It can prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable. It can require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance. It can, in short, make the technology itself worthy of our trust.

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    0674976002
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    978-0674976009
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    Harvard University Press
  4. Publication date
    April 9, 2018
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
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“[A] smart new book… [W]ill repay the attention of designers, privacy professionals, and anyone who wants to learn how design guided by strengthened laws and regulations might help us emerge from today’s swirl of privacy problems.”―James Barszcz, The Privacy Advisor (International Association of Privacy Professionals website)

“Deceptive design nudges, tricks, and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Hartzog argues in his new book… And when you think you’re in control of your own data, you rarely are.”―Ariel Bogle, ABC News (Australia)

“Privacy’s Blueprint is a real tour de force, introducing a rigorous structure for multiple dimensions of privacy protections.”―Frank Pasquale, author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

“Filled with fascinating examples and written in a lively and accessible way, Privacy’s Blueprint is the definitive chronicle of Privacy by Design. This is one of the most important books about privacy in our times.”―Daniel J. Solove, author of Understanding Privacy

“A bold and innovative privacy agenda and a beautifully written book. Hartzog demonstrates how and why privacy design is about power and politics.”―Paul M. Schwartz, author of Information Privacy Law

“With deep insight, passion, and humor, Woodrow Hartzog demands that we see what has been in front us all along yet never meaningfully reckoned with. As Hartzog makes clear, we can design apps, social media, and networked clothing (underwear!) with privacy in mind but we need a plan and this book provides it in spades. This is a defining book for our information age and a must read.”―Danielle Keats Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

About the Author

Woodrow Hartzog is Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University School of Law and College of Computer and Information Science.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (April 9, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674976002
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674976009
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
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Woodrow Hartzog is a Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University School of Law and the College of Computer and Information Science. His research on privacy, media, and robotics has been published in numerous law reviews and peer-reviewed publications such as the Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, and Michigan Law Review. Has also written for popular publications such as The Guardian, Wired, The Atlantic, CNN and BBC.

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Ginny
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of legal controls possible in todays legal system
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2018
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This is a book for lawyers and others who want to understand the current U.S.A. "received view" in law on privacy. It is not particularly good on technology but it is not particularly bad either. The notion of "design" has to do with the "design of law or the legal system to get control of privacy problems in today's world of the Internet". It does not attempt, as the Europeans have attempted, to define privacy as a fundamental human right, but rather approaches privacy as a patchwork quilt that can be improved with good (legal) design on existing laws -- very U.S.A. Another privacy policy book, "how to get your privacy back," has technology, law, and social contracts as a more universal means of design. This book does a better job of illustrating how law interacts with social contracts but without enough understanding of technology and science needed for a universal design for privacy in today's world. This book to my mind is a must read for any privacy policy theorist.
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Ellis Grubbs
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2018
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Great Book !!! The author of the book really knows what he is talking about and is an expert in the subject matter !!
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B4E1
4.0 out of 5 stars A book about privacy that anyone can read
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2020
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This is probably the only substantive book on digital privacy protections that is actually readable AND has really good content. The book has a clear methodology and just enough examples to explain the theoretical aspects without going down too many rabbit holes or getting lost. The closest thing to a unified theory of privacy design that I've read.
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Evan Selinger
5.0 out of 5 stars the primary reason why I work with Woodrow Hartzog is that genuinely believe he’s one of the very sharpest privacy theorists around and is an amazing writer. In my opinion
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2018
Upfront disclosure: I frequently collaborate with the author on articles about privacy. Hence, I’m absolutely a biased reviewer. That said, the primary reason why I work with Woodrow Hartzog is that genuinely believe he’s one of the very sharpest privacy theorists around and is an amazing writer. In my opinion, Privacy’s Blueprint is a tour-de-force that contains well-researched and effectively integrated interdisciplinary insights and arguments that will enlighten anyone interested in the core intersections between privacy, design, and law, and curious about why design remains a legal blindspot despite its immense power for shaping user behavior and preferences. Hartzog is an optimist at heart. But this disposition doesn’t prevent him from identifying a variety of failures where consumer trust has been violated. And while Hartzog hopes for a better tomorrow, nothing deters him from being brutally honest about how difficult it will be to get the needed institutional buy-in to promote meaningful and lasting reform. One more thing… I used an advanced copy of the book in one of my upper-level undergraduate courses and found it to be the ideal text for facilitating sharp discussions about why privacy matters and can’t be adequately championed for by simply tweaking more familiar legal positions.
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Brett Frischmann
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written, well-researched, well-argued, readable, thoughful, humorous at times, scary at others
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020
This is one of the best books on privacy in the past decade. Highly recommended.
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Francisco Senociain
4.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro
Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2019
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En términos generales es un buen libro. Cumple con las expectativas y está redactado en un lenguaje entendible para todos.
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Donna Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars Informative
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2019
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Bought this for a family member. He found it to be informative.
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5.0 out of 5 stars nice
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