Privacy Techtonics

Philippa Williams is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London.Lipika Kamra is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Birmingham.

• 1. ‘The Future Is Private’2. WhatsApp? Why India?3. Privacy Techtonics 4. The Politics of Digital Private Messaging 5. Privacy and the Law6. Privacy-by-design7. Privacy Is (Geo)political8. WhatsApp (in) Business9. Conclusion

‘A sharp and timely intervention, this book reveals how planetary-scale privacy infrastructures like WhatsApp’s encryption produce new frictions in public-private life, sovereignty and lived democracy in India.’ Payal Arora, Utrecht University ‘Rather than providing another dry, legal, regulatory and normative analysis of privacy in the digital age, Williams and Kamra provide a lucid and compelling account of the shifting corporate imaginaries and machinations of Big Tech and the everyday lived experiences of users navigating privacy. Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this is a vital read for anyone interested understanding the ongoing, contested production of privacy.’ Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University