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Nothing to Hide The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security by DANIEL J. SOLOVE |
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REVIEWS AND PRAISE “Daniel Solove takes on the two biggest challenges to privacy in the twenty-first century: the rapid development of technology that gives the government the ability to track our decisions, choices, discussions, and movements in real time; and the threat of catastrophic terrorist attacks, which demand increased security measures. In clear, measured prose, Solove shows how the law of privacy has failed us in addressing these twin challenges, and proposes an innovative way forward.” “Daniel Solove is one of America's leading experts on privacy law. In this engaging book, he explains why privacy is everyone's concern; it is a crucial social value that must be integrated into our national security policy rather than simply balanced against it.” "Bravo Daniel Solove! In Nothing to Hide he skillfully dispels many of the myths associated with the faulty zero-sum tradeoff between privacy vs. security. In exposing the flawed logic of having to forego one interest in order to secure another, Daniel Solove has done us all a great service." Nothing to Hide "provides a thought-provoking, accessible introduction to privacy and security law. . . . [T]he book is peppered with literary, historical, and legal references and examples." "[A] book like privacy scholar Daniel Solove’s “Nothing to Hide” is sorely needed. In language aimed squarely at a general audience, Solove, a renowned legal theorist, catalogs — and punctures — the litany of bad arguments that have persuaded so many Americans to abandon privacy in the name of greater security." "What’s particularly refreshing in Solove’s work is his ability to encapsulate the “big picture” in surveillance law. . . . Solove gives us a richer concept of privacy, as a right to self-determination, dignity, due process, and a fair hearing in an increasingly automated and alienating world. . . .Nothing to Hide is a consistently fascinating effort to assure that the modern surveillance state respects the citizens it claims to protect." "Solove makes convincing arguments that we need to refocus the debate and make more effort to protect privacy, Fourth Amendment and First Amendment rights. This can be done without seriously damaging national security. . . . This is a very timely and thought provoking book." "In an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand book, Solove concisely reveals the fallacies of many security arguments that justify intrusions into our lives. He also provides cogent examples of how the security-privacy balance can be properly restored. Solove provides a compelling case for swinging the pendulum back toward privacy and civil rights at a time when security threatens to become Orwellian." |
“The Information Age has turned our notions of privacy upside down. Solove is our smartest thinker on what privacy means today, and "Nothing to Hide" definitely refutes old ideas about privacy and replaces them with ones that work in the world of data brokers, Facebook, and Wikileaks. The debate will never be the same after this book.” Nothing to Hide "succinctly and persuasively debunks the arguments that have contributed to privacy’s demise, including the canard that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear from surveillance. Privacy, he reminds us, is an essential aspect of human existence, and of a healthy liberal democracy—a right that protects the innocent, not just the guilty." "As Daniel Solove has argued so persuasively in his book Nothing To Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security, Americans today devalue their own privacy in all sorts of staggering ways." |
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