Privacy is Power

Carissa Véliz is an Oxford philosopher who studies data ethics, and this book is the best argument for collective privacy action written for people who aren't academics. Her central claim is structural: privacy isn't a personal preference you manage with browser settings — it's a political right that requires political solutions. She walks through what that means practically, legally, and socially, including what kinds of regulation work and why individual choices alone can't fix a system designed to extract. The thirty-plus cities that canceled their Flock Safety contracts? That's what this book is about. Not the apps. The organizing.