Listen "Ignacio Cofone - What Is The Privacy Fallacy?"
Episode Synopsis
Alex speaks with Ignacio Cofone about the intricacies of privacy in the digital era, examining how personal data is collected, inferred upon, and the legal frameworks that govern these practices, as elucidated in Ignacio Cofone's book, "The Privacy Fallacy."
Episode Notes:
"The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" by Ignacio Cofone
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Privacy-Fallacy-Power-Information-Economy/dp/1316518116
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power" by Shoshana Zuboff
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1541758005
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Link: https://gdpr.eu/
"Privacy and Freedom" by Alan F. Westin
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Privacy-Freedom-Alan-F-Westin/dp/1935439979
"Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0" by Lawrence Lessig
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Code-Laws-Cyberspace-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/0465039146
"Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/014311526X
"The Right to Privacy" by Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis
Link: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~shmat/courses/cs5436/warren-brandeis.pdf
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