Books, articles, TV, films, papers, guides - learn more!

Books

Title Author Year Hardcopy link eBook link Audiobook link
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff 2019 Awesome Books Kobo Spotify
Privacy Is Power Carissa Veliz 2019 Awesome Books Kobo
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams 2019 Awesome Books Kobo Kobo
Don't Be Evil Rana Faroohar 2019 Awesome Books Kobo
The Digital Republic Jamie Susskind 2023 Awesome Books Kobo
Reset Ronald J. Deibert 2021 September Publishing Amazon
Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 2016 Awesome Books Kobo
The Tech Coup Marietje Schaake 2024 Waterstones Kobo
The Secret Life of Data Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert 2024 Awesome Books Kobo
Doppelganger Naomi Klein 2024 Awesome Books Kobo
Disengage Punching Up Press 2025 PunchingUpPress.com Free ebook
The New Age of Sexism: AI Laura Bates 2025 Awesome Books Kobo
Empire of AI Karen Hao 2025 Awesome Books Kobo

N.B. Kobo sells ebooks in EPUB format, which is much better than Amazon's (proprietary) Kindle format. But they still have DRM - which is a method of trying to lock you in to one kind of device or vendor. You can strip the DRM off the ebooks using the Calibre app, and this guide. It's easy, and means you can read your ebook on any device.

TV & Films

Title Director Year Type
The Great Hack Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer 2019 Netflix documentary
The Social Dilemma Jeff Orlowski-Yang 2020 Netflix documentary
2073 Asif Kapadia 2025 Film
Facebook's role in Brexit - and the threat to democracy Carole Cadwalladr 2019 TED Talk
Terms and Conditions May Apply Cullen Hoback 2013 Documentary

Articles, academic papers & blogs

Title Author Year Type
Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? Shoshana Zuboff 2022 Academic paper
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry — Here’s How Electronic Frontier Foundation 2025 Article
To Save the News, We Must Ban Surveillance Advertising Electronic Frontier Foundation 2023 Article
New ICCL reports reveal serious security threat to the EU and US: the RTB system Irish Council for Civil Liberties 2023 Article with links to two reports
Pluralistic Cory Doctorow Various Blog

Guides and handbooks

Title Author Focus
Google-free in 5 weeks Punching Up Press 5 week plan, step by step, to move away from Google services
The Digital Exodus Guidebook Imagine The News A 6 step guide to move away from big tech services
Better Tech Infographic - Purchase With Purpose Purchase With Purpose An excellent flow chart infographic showing loads of big tech alternativees
The Opt Out Project - 21 day programme Opt Out Project A 21 day programme to help you switch away from big tech products
Big Tech migration checklist Rebel Tech Alliance A spreadsheet to keep track of which tech services you have migrated, and which ones you still need to do; Contains the names of all big tech services organised by product category
Data Detox Kit .org Tactical Tech .org Various guides including for improving the privacy of Alexa, de-Googling, hardening your browser etc
The Hitchhiker's guide to online privacy Anonymous Planet .org A guide to help you understand the various online tracking techniques, improve your online privacy and (if required) online anonymity.

Other ethical tech lists

Site Focus
Switching Software Ethtech lists
Privacy Guides .org Privacy knowledgebase; Ethtech lists
Alternative to .net Ethtech lists
Ethical.net Ethtech lists
Selfh.st apps Selfhosting apps list
European-alternatives.eu Europe-specific ethtech lists
Prism-Break.org Ethtech lists
Purchase With Purpose Ethtech lists in infographic form

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