IAPP Summer Reading List 2022
This annual list recommends books on a variety of topics including privacy, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats.
Editor's note
The IAPP has published an updated edition of the Summer Reading List.
As we slip into the warmer months, you may be looking to unwind with a good book. The IAPP asked privacy professionals to recommend their favorite privacy-centered books on a variety of topics including social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats. Whether you’re reading to unplug from the digital world or dig deeper into it, these privacy-themed picks will keep you engaged all season long.
IAPP 2022 summer reading recommendations:
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
Being Watched: Legal Challenges to Government Surveillance
Jeffrey L. Vagle
Born Digital: The Story of a Distracted Generation
Robert Wigley
Cryptography Apocalypse: Preparing for the Day When Quantum Computing Breaks Today's Crypto
Roger A. Grimes
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Steven Levy
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Cyber Privacy
April Doss
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
John P. Carlin
Extreme Privacy: What It Takes To Disappear
Michael Bazzel
Privacy Guide for Latin America Digital Privacy Guide for Latin America
IAPP Publications
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age
Neil Richards
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future
Jer Thorp
1984
George Orwell
None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Lawrence Cappello
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies
Woodrow Hartzog
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Carissa Véliz
Privacy in the Age of Big Data: Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
Theresa Payton
Privacy is Power
Carissa Veliz
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
The Art of Invisibility
Kevin D. Mitnick
The Circle
Dave Eggers
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
The Identity Trade: Selling Privacy and Reputation Online
Nora A. Draper
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
Rebecca Skloot
The Palace of Dreams: A Novel
Ismail Kadare
The Phoenix Project
Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
The Voice Catchers: How Marketers Listen In to Exploit Your Feelings, Your Privacy, and Your Wallet
Joseph Turow
They Know Everything About You
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age
Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Understanding Privacy
Daniel Solove
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inquality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil

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