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| Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom from Cambridge University Press | ||||||
 We live in a digital age, relying on our smartphones, IPods, and tablets to keep up with the rest of society. With Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom (available in July from Cambridge University Press, $24.99), Joshua A. T. Fairfield argues that we do not own anything, but instead we are the ones being owned.As a society, we risk becoming digital peasants, owned by software and advertising companies, not to mention overreaching governments. With the promise of ‘smart’ televisions, self-driving cars, and software-enabled homes, Fairfield has developed a new theory of property-as-information, showing how to make traditional property rules work online. By doing this, society can regain control of their technology. With exhaustively researched, clear and copious examples explaining complex legal problems through accessible stories, Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom by Joshua A. T. Fairfield should be read by those wanting to know more about the loss of our property rights, the implications for our privacy rights and how we can regain control of both. For more information, visit: * Amazon: http://amzn.to/2DeP2iJ * Website: cambridge.org |
