core
June 15, 2019, 4:46pm
#1
We have also other lists .
Fiction
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian governme Th...
We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Soviet dissident Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. It is believed that the novel had a huge influence on the works of Orwell and Huxley, as well as on the emergence of the genre of dystopia. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxley's We ...
Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single in...
"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction novella by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe. In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these "precogs" allow a division of the police called Precrime to arrest suspects before they can commit any actual crimes. When the head of Precrime, John Anderton, is himself predicted to murder a man whom he has never met, Anderton is convinced a great conspiracy is ...
The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network. It also introduces the concept of a Delphi pool, perhaps derived from the RAND Corporation's Delphi method – a futures market on world events which bears close resemblance to DARPA's co The t...
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, quasi-Christian, totalitarian state, known as Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids," who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" – the ruling class of men.
The novel explores themes of subjugat...
Digital Fortress is a techno-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 1998 by St. Martin's Press. The book explores the theme of government surveillance of electronically stored information on the private lives of citizens, and the possible civil liberties and ethical implications of using such technology.
When the United States National Security Agency's code-breaking supercomputer TRANSLTR encounters a revolutionary new code, Digital Fortress, that it cannot break...
Non-fiction
Introductory
The books in this gategory provide a lightweight introduction to the world of privacy and surveillance.
Understanding the theoretical importance of privacy
Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security is a book written by Daniel J. Solove regarding the nothing to hide argument regarding privacy. It was published by Yale University Press in 2011.
The book, written for a general audience, includes some material that had been adapted by law review articles written by Solove. Raymond G. Kessler wrote in the Law and Politics Book Review that "the average reader may find some discussions of the law difficult to follow." The book has t...
Understanding the Modern Context of (mass) Surveillance
"Cada época tiene su propio fascismo, y el nuestro difiere en muchos aspectos del que describe Orwell en los cuarenta (...). A nosotros nadie nos obliga a tener la telepantalla encendida. Nosotros mismos nos esmeramos en llevarla a todas partes,...
One of Christian Science Monitor’s best nonfiction books of 2020"Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . . a marvelous narrator for this particular story, as he nimbly guides us through complex technical arcana and some...
A multifaceted response to issues concerning personal privacy and government power by writers, artists, and others The filmmaker, artist,...
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State is a 2014 non-fiction book by American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. It was first published on May 13, 2014 through Metropolitan Books and details Greenwald's role in the global surveillance disclosures as revealed by the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. The documents from the Snowden archive cited in the book are freely available online.
The book consists of five chapters; Cont...
What can we do?
These books have a tendency to age quickly, so be mindful of the publishing date of the books your read
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lontra
September 24, 2019, 5:44pm
#2
Se fores preso, camadarahttps://www.marxists.org/portugues/marighella/1951/preso/se.htm
(If they arrest you, Comrade)
It’s a guide for the hidden communists, if they happened to be arrested and interrogated. I’m sure there’s other communist and carbonara bibliography regarding privacy.
And perhaps you would like to peruse the biblio of this masters:
https://academiamilitar.pt/mestrado-em-guerra-da-informacao.html
(masters in information war by the military academy of lisbon)
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core
September 24, 2019, 6:17pm
#3
Oh wow. It’s quite a strong one. I you happen for find one about privacy in those archives where you found this one, put it up here
I wasn’t able to find that master’s bibliography. Do you know where I can find it? War is not really my thing (quite the opposite), but there might be something cool in the suggested books.
vasilis
December 15, 2019, 11:32pm
#5
Where do you usually get these books?
I usually I like to buy these anonymously because nobody has the right to know what I’m reading. And I tend to prefer physical copies which I usually get through Fnac.
If I can’t find a physical copy, then I pirate them.
Once I know a way to get them legitimately without associating my name with that purchase, I will get them legit online. But until then…
Surveillance studies - David Lyon
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core
June 5, 2020, 10:48am
#9
Added these to the list following suggestions here on the forum.
"Cada época tiene su propio fascismo, y el nuestro difiere en muchos aspectos del que describe Orwell en los cuarenta (...). A nosotros nadie nos obliga a tener la telepantalla encendida. Nosotros mismos nos esmeramos en llevarla a todas partes,...
"Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . . a marvelous narrator for this particular story, as he nimbly guides us through complex technical arcana and some stubborn ethical questions. . . . Dark Mirror would be...
core
August 1, 2020, 7:31am
#11
It’s now on my reading list! Thanks for the suggestion
I’ve also added it to the first post (under “non-fiction > understanding the modern context”)
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