Book review: Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society by Firmin DeBrabander

Showler, Paul (2022) Book review: Life after privacy: reclaiming democracy in a surveillance society by Firmin DeBrabander. LSE Review of Books (02 Feb 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society, Firmin DeBrabander argues that rather than seeking to safeguard and revive privacy in the digital age, we should instead focus on becoming engaged citizens who contribute to a democratic public sphere. This lucid book is public philosophy at its best, writes Paul Showler, though he questions whether there might be ways to envision new and better forms of privacy for our present times. Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society. Firmin DeBrabander. Cambridge University Press. 2020.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Date Deposited:	09 May 2022 14:33
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:23
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/114031

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