The Black Box Society

Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with all this information? Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in.

• Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
• Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
• What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (The MIT Press)
• Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (The MIT Press)
• We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves
• If...Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
• Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
• Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code