Giveaway and a Book Review
Dreamscape Issue 6
Hello, Internet!
In this issue of Dreamscape I am reviewing the book Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards.
I'm also hosting a giveaway.
Enjoy!
Giveaway
In a collaboration with Codecrafters, I'm giving away three 3-month plans on their website!
As of this writing, my newsletter has 50 subscribers.
Your chances of winning should be pretty high!
So, how do you enter?
Reply to this email letting me know that you want to enter. (isak@isak.me)
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Why Privacy Matters by Neil Richards
A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead.
Why Privacy Matters is a book about privacy.
It is written by Neil Richards, a professor in law, and parts of the book read dry as toast.
But, behind all the law citations are a lot of well reasoned thoughts and arguments explaining why privacy matters, and the actions both the individual, and society as a whole, can take to better protect this instrumental right.
Most of the big tech companies making money though targeted advertising are American, and a lot of the laws these companies follow are based on the American constitution.
Neil Richards gives a lot of good examples on how this is not a modern enough approach of protecting end users.
There are a lot of comparisons between this and the European countries which follow GDPR, a much more modern set of laws for privacy regulation.
I recommend giving it a read!
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