1st Edition

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

By David Rudolph Copyright 2026
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

 

Part I: Foundations of Commercial 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

9. Privacy, Performance, and Power

10. International Privacy: The Fight for Digital Sovereignty

11. The Rise of Hipster Antitrust: A New Front in the Fight for Privacy

12. The Future of Privacy Law

Biography

David Rudolph is Adjunct Professor of Law at University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, where he teaches privacy law, and a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, where he is a member of the firm’s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy and Antitrust and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. He has extensive experience litigating privacy class actions. He is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and regularly presents and lectures on current issues in privacy law. He received his BA in philosophy and JD from the University of California, Berkeley.