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

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David Rudolph

Litigating Corporate Surveillance

Privacy, Autonomy, Power, and Democracy in the Courtroom

David Rudolph

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Routledge
30 September 2025

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 network has grown to encompass and absorb the basic digital substrate of our daily lives. Received wisdom, among commentators, the press, and even legal academia, is that this is all legal: Corporate surveillance has flourished because there are no legal tools to reign in its pervasive and invasive practices. Analyzing recent developments in data privacy law in light of ever-increasing data aggregation and cybersurveillance practices by corporations and governments, this book examines the pervasive, multimodal corporate surveillance practices that now permeate both our digital and offline lives and offers a prescription for fighting back through the courts. Interweaving discussions of the statutory, common law, and constitutional frameworks that are currently being applied in legal challenges to these activities, this book considers current critiques of privacy law as conceptualized by both legal scholars and practitioners. Additionally, it makes suggestions for navigating the future of privacy rights in the face of our increasingly digitized lives.

This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the field of corporate surveillance, digital law, and privacy law.

By: David Rudolph
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032537337
ISBN 10: 1032537337
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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.