“Timely and balanced, their book The Spy in the Coffee Machine is a scary treatise about the way technology has eroded privacy and continues to do so … The chief lesson of this excellent and potent short book is that we have to learn how to live with these actualities.” — A. C. Grayling, The New Scientist
“Offering a wealth of recent detail, O’Hara and Shadbolt provide a singular update and perspective on the accelerating predicament of privacy in the modern age.” — David Brin, Science fiction writer, futurist, and author of Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
“Kieron O’Hara and Nigel Shadbolt have offered an engaging and thought provoking roadmap for the emerging field of Web Science. They crisply survey what lies ahead as the Web becomes ubiquitous, and they invite everyone — not just academics and experts — to think about how to preserve the Web’s magic while avoiding its most unsettling prospects.” — Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, Oxford University
“This book will give anyone concerned about the growing number of CCTV cameras in our streets or the way young people expose their secrets on Facebook a sound appreciation of the wider issues. It will also arm them with a better ability to judge the trade-offs that we are asked to make on a daily basis between public and private.” — Bill Thompson, BBC Focus Magazine
“While critics have variously demanded control over the internet, the practical means have been ignored; O’Hara and Shadbolt readdress this, offering detailed accounts of how technology that threatens privacy can be used to protect it.” — Times Literary Supplement, May 27, 2008
