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

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

Author: David Rudolph
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032537337
Published In: October 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book interrogates the legality of corporate surveillance, offering a corrective approach to protecting privacy through litigation--not through legislation.

Explosive revelations, from the Snowden disclosures to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, have shown us that our daily lives are embedded in a network of pervasive, panoptic surveillance designed to manipulate. This corporate surveillance network has grown to encompass and absorb the basic digital substrate of our daily lives. Received wisdom, among commentators, the press, and even legal academia, is that this is all legal: corporate surveillance has flourished because there are no legal tools to reign in its pervasive and invasive practices. Analysing recent developments in data privacy law in light of ever-increasing data aggregation and cybersurveillance practices by corporations and governments, this book examines the pervasive, multimodal corporate surveillance practices that now permeate both our digital and offline lives, and offers a prescription for fighting back through the courts. Interweaving discussions of the statutory, common law, and constitutional frameworks that are currently being applied in legal challenges to these activities, this book considers current critiques of privacy law as conceptualized by both legal scholars and practitioners. Additionally, it makes suggestions for navigating the future of privacy rights in the face of our increasingly digitized lives.

This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of corporate surveillance, digital law, and privacy law.

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