This page is used to disseminate resources and corrections for the book "Privacy is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design", that appeared at MIT Press, October 5, 2021.

Resources

• Chapter endnotes with links to online resources.
• Advice on what you as user can do.

Summaries

I have written a series of blog posts summarising the book chapters.

• We Are Not Collecting Personal Data
• You Have Zero Privacy Anyway—Get Over It
• I’ve Got Nothing To Hide
• It’s Merely Metadata
• We Always Need To Know Who You Are
• Your Data Is Safe With Us
• Privacy And Security Are A Zero-Sum Game
• Privacy Is Hard

Press coverage

• Ben Rothke (2022). Ben's Book of the Month: Review of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths".
• Shade, L. R. (2022). Book Review: Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design. New Media & Society, 24(12), 2773–2775.
• Ardi Kolah (2022). Book Review: Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design. Journal of Data Protection & Privacy, 5(1), 101-102.
• GoodReads score 4.13
• Future of Privacy Forum Privacy Book Club: Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths by Jaap-Henk Hoepman, November 8, 2021.
• The NOS op 3 Tech Podcast, October 7, 2021.
• The New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast, Ocotber 5, 2021.

Corrections

• Errata for chapter 4.