Litigating Corporate Surveillance - Privacy, Autonomy, Power, and Democracy in the Courtroom

This book interrogates the legality of corporate surveillance, offering a corrective approach to protecting privacy through litigation--not through legislation. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of corporate surveillance, digital law, and privacy law.

List of contents

Introduction
Part I: Foundations of Commercial Surveillance Litigation
1. Privacy as Power Relation
2. The Snowden Revelations and Government Cybersurveillance
3. Cambridge Analytica and the Unmasking of the Corporate Panopticon
Part II: The Current Privacy Battlefield
4. Geolocation Tracking - An Exhaustive Chronicle of our Daily Lives
5. Biometric Information Collection - Through a Face Scanner Darkly
6. Internet Activity Tracking - Business as Usual or Egregious Violation of Social Norms?
7. Big Data, Data Brokers, and the Corporate Surveillance Cartel
8. Harm and Damages Theories
Part III: Critiques, Alternative Fronts, and Future
9. Privacy, Performance, and Power
10. International Privacy: The Fight for Digital Sovereignty
11. The Rise of Hipster Antitrust - A New Front in the Fight for Privacy
12. The Future of Privacy Law

About the author

David Rudolph is Adjunct Professor of Law at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, where he teaches privacy law, and a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice groups. He has extensive experience litigating privacy class actions. He is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and regularly presents and lectures on current issues in privacy law. He received his BA in philosophy and JD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: David Rudolph
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032537337
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253733-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; LAW / General, COMPUTERS / Computer Science, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Litigation, computer science, LAW / Privacy, Privacy & data protection, intellectual property law, Privacy and data protection, Legal aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Data Protection Law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, Civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution