I’m very happy to announce that a new book I’ve co-edited with Tjerk Timan (TNO) and Bert-Jaap Koops (TILT) is now available for pre-order via Edward Elgar’s website or Amazon. The book, Privacy in Public Space: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges, will be out in November, and is being published as part of the Elgar Law, Technology and Society book series. The Edward Elgar website also includes a form to recommend the book to your local (university) librarian.
Abstract:
This book examines privacy in public space from both legal and regulatory perspectives. With on-going technological innovations such as mobile cameras, WiFi tracking, drones and augmented reality, aspects of citizens’ lives are increasingly vulnerable to intrusion. The contributions describe contemporary challenges to achieving privacy and anonymity in physical public space, at a time when legal protection remains limited compared to ‘private’ space. To address this problem, the book clearly shows why privacy in public space needs defending. Different ways of conceptualizing and shaping such protection are explored, for example through ‘privacy bubbles’, obfuscation and surveillance transparency, as well as revising the assumptions underlying current privacy laws.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Conceptual directions for privacy in public space
Tjerk Timan, Bryce Clayton Newell, and Bert-Jaap Koops
Part I: Philosophical and Empirical Insights
1. Conceptualising Space and Place: Lessons from Geography for the Debate on Privacy in Public
Bert-Jaap Koops and Maša Galic
2. Hidden in plain sight
Michael Nagenborg
3. Privacy in public and the contextual conditions of agency
Maria Brincker
4. A politico-economic perspective on privacy in public spaces
Karsten Mause
5. Visually Distant and Virtually Close: Public and Private Spaces in the Archives de la Planète (1909–1931) and Life in a Day (2011)
Julia M. Hildebrand
Part II: Law and Regulation
6. Exposure and concealment in digitized public spaces
Steven B. Zhao
7. Covering up: American and European legal approaches to public facial anonymity after S.A.S. v France
Angela Daly
8. Privacy impact notices to address the privacy pollution of mass surveillance
A. Michael Froomkin
9. Privacy in Public Spaces: The Problem of Out-of-Body DNA
Albert E. Scherr
10. The Internet of Other People’s Things
Meg Leta Jones
Conclusion
11. The need for privacy in public space
Tjerk Timan