I recently finished watching the first season of a terrific new TV series, The Audacity (2026). The show chronicles Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen), an out-of-control tech billionaire who has a company called Hypergnosis. The show was created by Jonathan Glatzer, who was a writer and producer for several TV series including Succession, Better Call Saul, and Bloodline.
I created this cartoon about the profound ugliness of the AI race. Tech leaders are rushing to create AI and are unleashing it upon the world far too quickly with far too few guardrails and far too little responsibility.
I previously posted my collection of privacy magazine covers. Here’s my collection of magazine covers involving AI, the internet, and related digital technologies.
I collected more than 80 magazine covers from the 1950s to the present. I’m excited to share my collection with you. If you have any covers I’ve missed, please share them with me.
I’ll begin with a quick look, then I’ll include larger images later.
Also scroll down to the very end to see my favorite covers, including my top 3 and see if you agree with me.
I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. As I’m just launching this series, I have a backlog of recent works that I plan to include in future editions.
Is personal data property? Should it be?
I’ve often heard arguments that an effective way to protect privacy would be to protect personal data with property rights. The thinking behind this idea is that ownership of property confers a lot of power on the owner, so perhaps this is the best way to empower individuals to control their data.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. I wrote about this problem more than twenty years ago in my book, THE DIGITAL PERSON: TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE (2004) (see here for a free PDF of the entire book).
I began my discussion by explaining the theory animating the proponents of privacy-as-property:
Watch Daniel Solove’s discussion with Stephen Bolinger, the creator of the documentary “Privacy People” about the role of privacy professionals and their importance.
I enjoy collecting things related to privacy as well as seeing how privacy is described and depicted throughout different times in history.
I collected about 50 magazine covers involving privacy from 1950s to the present. I’m excited to share my collection with you. If you have any covers I’ve missed, please share them with me.
I also have a collection of magazine covers involving AI, computers, and the internet that I’ll be sharing later.
I’ll begin with a quick look, then I’ll include larger images later.
The TV series Andor (2022-2025) is one of the very best depictions of the dimensions of an authoritarian regime and those who resist it. The series is one of my all-time favorites—it is phenomenal in everything, from writing to acting to cinematography.
Andor chronicles the beginnings of the rebellion against the Empire prior to the movie Star Wars Episode IV (1977). It is a prequel to the prequel movie, Rogue I: A Star Wars Story (2016).
“Privacy is dead!” I’ve heard this proclamation countless times. But privacy has been dying for decades . . . and it keeps on dying.
Below is my collection of eulogies for privacy, which shows that we should be skeptical of claims that privacy is dead. If we believe this, then we might give up the fight for privacy, which will let those who want to kill privacy get away with murder.