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A reference library across privacy, data protection, AI governance and surveillance — practitioner guides, legal texts and foundational works, grouped by focus area. Built to be a broad source you can browse and choose from. Spotted a gap or an out-of-date edition? Tell us and we’ll check it.
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- Foundational & general
- DP law — UK & EU
- US privacy law (casebook/text)
- International & comparative
- Programme management & ops
- DSARs & individual rights
- Privacy engineering, PETs & PbD
- Breach, incident & security
- AI governance & ethics
- Surveillance, society & ethics
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alan F. Westin | Privacy and Freedom | 2015 | Reissue (orig. 1967) |
| Ari Ezra Waldman | Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power | 2021 | 1st (only) |
| Carissa Véliz | Privacy Is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data | 2021 | 1st |
| Daniel J. Solove | Understanding Privacy | 2008 | 1st (only) |
| Daniel J. Solove | Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security | 2011 | 1st (only) |
| Daniel J. Solove | The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age | 2004 | 1st (only) |
| Daniel J. Solove | On Privacy and Technology | 2025 | 1st |
| Daniel J. Solove | The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet | 2007 | 1st (only) |
| Danielle Keats Citron | The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age | 2022 | 1st |
| Helen Nissenbaum | Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life | 2010 | 1st (only) |
| Julie E. Cohen | Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism | 2019 | 1st (only) |
| Neil Richards | Why Privacy Matters | 2021 | 1st |
| Woodrow Hartzog | Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies | 2018 | 1st (only) |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Millard (ed.) | Cloud Computing Law | 2021 | 2nd |
| Eduardo Ustaran (ed) | European Data Protection: Law and Practice | 2023 | 3rd |
| European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) & Council of Europe | Handbook on European Data Protection Law | 2018 | 2018 ed. |
| Gloria González Fuster | The Emergence of Personal Data Protection as a Fundamental Right of the EU | 2014 | 1st (only) |
| Ibrahim Hasan (ed.) | UK GDPR Handbook | 2025 | 2nd |
| Kuner, Bygrave & Docksey (eds) | The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Commentary | 2020 | 1st (+2021 update vol.) |
| Lothar Determann | Determann's Field Guide to Data Privacy Law: International Corporate Compliance | 2025 | 6th |
| Orla Lynskey | The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law | 2015 | 1st (only) |
| Paul Lambert | A User's Guide to Data Protection: Law and Policy | 2022 | 4th |
| Paul Voigt & Axel von dem Bussche | The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): A Practical Guide | 2024 | 2nd |
| Peter Carey | Data Protection: A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law | 2018 | 5th |
| Rosemary Jay | Data Protection Law and Practice | 2020 | 5th (+ supplements) |
| Stewart Room (ed.) | Data Protection and Compliance | 2021 | 2nd |
| Walters, Trakman & Zeller | Data Protection Law: A Comparative Analysis | 2019 | 1st |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Jay Hoofnagle | Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy | 2016 | 1st (only) |
| Daniel J. Solove & Paul M. Schwartz | Information Privacy Law (Aspen Casebook) | 2024 | 8th |
| Daniel J. Solove & Paul M. Schwartz | Privacy Law Fundamentals | 2024 | 7th |
| Peter Swire & DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo | U.S. Private-Sector Privacy | 2023 | 4th |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anu Bradford | The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World | 2020 | 1st (only) |
| Christopher Kuner | Transborder Data Flows and Data Privacy Law | 2013 | 1st (only) |
| Graham Greenleaf | Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trade and Human Rights Perspectives | 2014 | 1st (only) |
| Lee A. Bygrave | Data Privacy Law: An International Perspective | 2014 | 1st (only) |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Hoskins | How to be a Decent DPO: Letters to Aspiring Privacy Pros | 2021 | 1st |
| Nishant Bhajaria | Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers | 2022 | 1st |
| Russell Densmore (ed) | Privacy Program Management: Tools for Managing Privacy Within Your Organization | 2021 | 3rd |
| Stephen R. Massey | The Ultimate GDPR Practitioner Guide: Demystifying Privacy & Data Protection | 2020 | 2nd |
| Tim Turner | The DPO Daily Challenge | 2026 | 1st |
| Valerie Lyons & Todd Fitzgerald | The Privacy Leader Compass | 2023 | 1st |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Massey & Catriona Leafe | Managing Subject Access Requests: A Practical Handbook for EVERY Business | 2023 | 1st |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowman, Gesher, Grant & Slate | The Architecture of Privacy | 2015 | 1st (only) |
| Jaap-Henk Hoepman | Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy through Careful Design | 2021 | 1st |
| Karen Lawrence Öqvist & Filip Johnssén | Hands-On Guide to GDPR Compliance: Privacy by Design, Privacy by Default | 2018 | 1st |
| R. Jason Cronk | Strategic Privacy by Design | 2021 | 2nd |
| Travis D. Breaux (ed.) | Privacy in Technology (IAPP / CIPT) | 2014 | 1st |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Schneier | Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World | 2015 | 1st (only) |
| Bruce Schneier | Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World | 2018 | 1st (only) |
| Guido Reinke | Blue Paper on Data Protection: A Data Breach Accountability Framework | 2020 | 2nd |
| Kevvie Fowler | Data Breach Preparation and Response | 2016 | 1st (only) |
| Sherri Davidoff | Data Breaches: Crisis and Opportunity | 2019 | 1st (only) |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Christian | The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values | 2020 | 1st (only) |
| Cathy O'Neil | Weapons of Math Destruction | 2016 | 1st (only) |
| Frank Pasquale | The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information | 2015 | 1st (only) |
| Frank Pasquale | New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI | 2020 | 1st (only) |
| Ivana Bartoletti | An Artificial Revolution: On Power, Politics and AI | 2020 | 1st |
| Jacob Turner | Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence | 2019 | 1st (only) |
| Kate Crawford | Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence | 2021 | 1st (only) |
| Safiya Umoja Noble | Algorithms of Oppression | 2018 | 1st (only) |
| Virginia Eubanks | Automating Inequality | 2018 | 1st (only) |
| Author(s) | Title | Year | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Schneier | A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules to Their Benefit | 2023 | 1st |
| David Lyon | The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life | 2018 | 1st (only) |
| David Lyon | Surveillance Studies: An Overview | 2007 | 1st (only) |
| Julia Angwin | Dragnet Nation | 2014 | 1st (only) |
| Shoshana Zuboff | The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | 2019 | 1st (only) |
| Viktor Mayer-Schönberger | Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age | 2009 | 1st (only) |
| Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier | Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think | 2013 | 1st (only) |