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IAPP Summer Reading List 2022

This annual list recommends books on a variety of topics including privacy, social media, artificial intelligence, and cyberthreats.

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Editor's note

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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