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Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies

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Book Synopsis: Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all built in ways that make it hard to guard personal information. And the law says this is okay because it is up to users to protect themselves—even when the odds are deliberately stacked against them.

In Privacy's Blueprint, Woodrow Hartzog pushes back against this state of affairs, arguing that the law should require software and hardware makers to respect privacy in the design of their products. Current legal doctrine treats technology as though it were value-neutral: only the user decides whether it functions for good or ill. But this is not so. As Hartzog explains, popular digital tools are designed to expose people and manipulate users into disclosing personal information.

Against the often self-serving optimism of Silicon Valley and the inertia of tech evangelism, Hartzog contends that privacy gains will come from better rules for products, not users. The current model of regulating use fosters exploitation. Privacy's Blueprint aims to correct this by developing the theoretical underpinnings of a new kind of privacy law responsive to the way people actually perceive and use digital technologies. The law can demand encryption. It can prohibit malicious interfaces that deceive users and leave them vulnerable. It can require safeguards against abuses of biometric surveillance. It can, in short, make the technology itself worthy of our trust.

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Protect your privacy and take control of your online experience with Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies. In today's digital world, your personal information is constantly at risk of being exposed or manipulated by the very technologies you rely on. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of Things are all designed to make it difficult for you to safeguard your privacy. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Privacy's Blueprint, written by Woodrow Hartzog, challenges the current legal norms that place the burden of privacy protection solely on users. Hartzog argues that software and hardware makers should be legally bound to respect privacy in the design of their products. He highlights how popular digital tools are intentionally designed to exploit and manipulate users into sharing their personal information.

Don't be fooled by the optimism of Silicon Valley and the tech evangelists. Real privacy gains can only come from better rules for product design, not from putting the burden on users. Privacy's Blueprint proposes a new kind of privacy law that is responsive to how people actually perceive and use digital technologies. It calls for encryption, prohibits deceptive interfaces, and demands safeguards against biometric surveillance abuses.

Take charge of your privacy and demand better technology. Get a copy of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies now and learn how the law can make digital technology worthy of your trust.

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