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You are being watched.

Whether through your phone or your car or your credit card, caught on a CCTV camera or tracked through your online viewing history, government agencies know where you are, and are quietly collecting your most intimate, mundane, and personal information.

Is this even legal?

Habeas Data shows how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics, mores, and laws of privacy.

Award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matching them against the capabilities of modern technology. It’s an approach that combines the charge of a legal thriller with the shock of the daily headlines.

Chapters include: the 1960s prosecution of a gambler that established the “reasonable expectation of privacy” in nonpublic places beyond your home (but how does that ruling apply now, when police can chart your every move and hear your every conversation within your own home — without even having to enter it?); the 1970s case where the police monitored a lewd caller — the decision of which is now the linchpin of the NSA’s controversial metadata tracking program revealed by Edward Snowden; and a 2010 low-level burglary trial that revealed police had tracked a defendant’s past 12,898 locations before arrest — an invasion of privacy grossly out of proportion to the alleged crime, which showed how authorities are all too willing to take advantage of the ludicrous gap between the slow pace of legal reform and the rapid transformation of technology.

A dazzling exposé that journeys from Oakland, California to the halls of the Supreme Court to the back of a squad car, Habeas Data combines deft reportage, deep research, and original interviews to offer an X-ray diagnostic of our current surveillance state.

PRAISE FOR CYRUS FARIVAR & HABEAS DATA

“[A] lively history.”
— The New Yorker

“A lively catalog of privacy-related court cases and laws that have arisen alongside new technologies.”
— The New York Review of Books

“Farivar’s work is essential, smart and cogent.”
— Cory Doctorow, co-editor, Boing Boing

“Habeas Data should be required reading for all public officials who want to better understand the near-future of privacy and surveillance.”
— Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland, California

“A great book. Cyrus Farivar shows that the government, at all levels, needs to be more forthright about what kind of surveillance is used on all of us. The law desperately needs to catch up.”
— Ted Lieu, U.S. Representative for California’s 33rd congressional district

“Cyrus Farivar pulls back the curtain on how the government has transformed everyday technologies into surveillance machines, and public and private places into surveillance traps—part deep-dive into how everything from your smartphone to your home can be used as a surveillance tool, and part crash-course in the court cases that both help and fail to constrain the government’s most privacy-invasive activities.”
— Robyn Greene, policy counsel, Open Technology Institute at New America

“Essential reading for anyone concerned with how technology has overrun privacy.”
_— Mitch Kapor, co-founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation

“A powerful book that looks at how two invisible forces—law and technology—combine to change the world we live in and the future that is available to us.”
— Matt Mitchell, founder, CryptoHarlem

“Cyrus Farivar has covered the excitement and tensions of big data collection for years. He is perfectly positioned, with this new book, to chart the history that brought us here and suss out where we’re going next.”
— Emily Bazelon, author of Sticks and Stones; co-host of Slate’s Political Gabfest

READINGS & EVENTS

In 2019, Cyrus held readings and talks at various locations around the United States.

To invite him to speak at your university or group, please email: cfarivar@cfarivar.org.

Previous 2019 events:

February 2 – Milpitas – Milpitas Library – 2pm
March 4 – Chicago – Northwestern Law – 12pm
April 3 – Berkeley – Banatao Auditorium – 12pm
April 5 – Berkeley – School of Law, Room 123 – 3:15pm
April 29 – Hanover, NH – Dartmouth College – 5pm
May 1 – New York – Columbia University – 7pm
May 7 – Oakland – Ale Industries – 7pm
May 10 – Boston – Northeastern University – 9am
November 18 – Portland – Northwest Academy – 6pm

Previous 2018 events:

April 9 – Davis – UC Davis School of Law, King Hall, Room 1001 – 12pm
April 12 – Milwaukee – Marquette University Law School at Eckstein Hall– 12:15pm
April 19 – Annapolis – US Naval Academy Center for Cyber Security Studies – PRIVATE EVENT
April 26 – Rohnert Park – Sonoma State University, Introduction to Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Salazar 2013 – 1pm
May 2 – Oakland – Main Library – 6pm
May 5 – Oakland – Dimond Branch Library – 1pm
May 8 – Oakland – Laurel Books – 7pm (Launch Party!)
May 9 – Seattle – UW Law School Tech Policy Lab (RSVP to Hannah Almeter: halmeter@uw.edu) / William H. Gates Hall – 12:30pm / UW Law happy hour at Schultzy’s – 5:30pm
May 12 – San Francisco – Writers With Drinks at Make Out Room– 7:30pm
May 14 – Palo Alto – Stanford Law School, Room 280B – 12:50pm
May 14 – Santa Clara – SCU School of Law at Lucas Hall, Room 126 (Forbes Room) – 7pm
May 17 – San Francisco – UC Hastings at Room 304, 198 McCallister – 6pm
May 20 – Los Angeles – Skylight Books – 5pm
May 21 – Los Angeles – PRIVATE EVENT
May 22 – Santa Monica – Diesel – 6:30pm
May 30 – Berkeley – Pegasus Books – 7:30pm
June 7 – Phoenix – ISSA – Venue 8600 ($30 for non-ISSA members) – 12:15pm
June 11 – Washington, DC – R Street Institute – 5pm
June 11 – Washington, DC – Solid State Books – 8pm
June 12 – Baltimore – The Ivy Bookshop – 7pm
June 13 – Oakland – Ars Technica Live at Eli’s Mile High Club – 7pm
June 20 – San Francisco – PRIVATE EVENT
June 27 – Menlo Park – In Deep Radio at Kepler’s Books – 7pm
July 18 – Davis – Yolo County Public Library – 7pm
July 31 – Corte Madera – Book Passage – 7:30pm
August 7 – Las Vegas – Skyfall Lounge (open to Black Hat attendees only) – 6:15pm
August 14 – Oakland – Octopus Literary Salon – 7pm
August 30 – Berkeley – Room 202, South Hall, UC Berkeley – 5:30pm
September 4 – Santa Cruz – Discretion Brewing – 6:30pm
September 7 – Danville – Rakestraw Books – 7pm
September 14 – Lexington – University of Kentucky – 3pm
October 8 – Houston – Brazos Bookstore – 7pm
October 9 – Austin – Capital Factory – 7pm
October 10 – Dallas – PRIVATE EVENT
October 10 – Dallas – UT Dallas -2pm
October 11 – Dallas – UNT School of Law – 5pm
October 18 – Oakland – Tertulia – 6pm
(Benefit for Housing & Economic Rights Advocates, $40 suggested donation)
November 7 – New York – PRIVATE EVENT
November 7 – New York – Molasses Books (with Meredith Broussard) – 8pm
November 13 – Mill Valley – Mill Valley Rotary Club – 1pm