There is no required textbook for this class.  However, you may find the following recommended texts useful and interesting:

 

William G. Staples, Encyclopedia of Privacy (Greenwood Press 2007).

 

Nicholas Carr, The Big Switch (W.W. Norton & Co., 2008).

 

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age (The National Academies Press, 2007).

 

Daniel J. Solove, The Digital Person:  Technology and Privacy in the Information Age (NYU Press, 2004).

 

Simson Garfinkle, Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century (O’Reilly, 2000).

 

Robert O’Harrow, No Place to Hide (Simon and Schuster, 2005).

 

James Cortada, Making the Information Society (Prentice Hall, 2002).

 

How To Use The Federal FOI Act. Available free online at http://www.rcfp.org/foiact/index.html