IAPP Summer Reading List 2023
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.
The 2022 edition of the list can be found here.
IAPP 2023 summer reading recommendations:
Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
Dan Bouk
The Fight for Privacy
Danielle Keats Citron
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
April Falcon Doss
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Seek and Hide
Amy Gajda
The Power of One
Frances Haugen
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
1984
George Orwell
Why Privacy Matters
Neil Richards
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Data Privacy: A runbook for engineers
Nishant Bhajaria
The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World
Anu Bradford

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