Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Minds

Without a moment's pause, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and jump to conclusions about who we are. They even shape our everyday thoughts and actions - from who we date to how we vote. But this is just the latest front in an age-old struggle.

Part history and part manifesto, Freedom to Think charts the history and importance of our most basic human right: freedom of thought. From Galileo to Nudge Theory to Alexa, human rights lawyer Susie Alegre explores how the powerful have always sought to get inside our heads, influence how we think and shape what we buy.

Providing a bold new framework to understand how our agency is being gradually undermined, Freedom to Think is a ground-breaking and vital charter for taking back our humanity and safeguarding our reason.

Author: Susie Alegre
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Published: 07/07/2022
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.31w x 1.37d
ISBN13: 9781838951528
ISBN10: 1838951520
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Privacy & Surveillance (see also Political Science | Privacy
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- Computers | Information Technology

About the Author
Susie Alegre is a leading human rights barrister at the internationally renowned Doughty Street Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in digital human rights, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on the human rights of freedom of thought and opinion. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton.