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A report that Amazon is buying books, scanning them for AI training, and destroying the copies revives the problem Nicholson Baker placed at the center of Double Fold. Information can survive extraction even as the evidence that carried it disappears.
Double Fold by Nicholson Baker
Smart glasses can make an ordinary glance indistinguishable from an act of capture. John Berger’s Ways of Seeing clarifies what disappears when only the camera wearer knows what kind of encounter is taking place.
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
When surveillance technology is abused, companies tend to promise stricter access, auditing, and oversight. Oscar H. Gandy’s The Panoptic Sort clarifies the harder question: whether governing access to an expansive record system is the same as protecting privacy.
The panoptic sort by Oscar H. Gandy
