// Prerequisites
What to read before RGPD et droit des données personnelles
If RGPD et droit des données personnelles feels too steep at intermediate level, here is what to read first. Lighter books in the same topics that build the prerequisites this one assumes.
01 · 2020
À la trace
An investigative map of modern surveillance — from data brokers and facial recognition to contact-tracing — charting how continuous digital tracking became normal, by a French tech journalist.
Beginner4/5Olivier Tesquet02 · 2016
Surveillance://
A lucid, accessible case for digital privacy — how mass surveillance works, why it matters, and concrete ways to take back control — by the founder of Mozilla Europe.
Beginner4/5Tristan Nitot03 · 2010
La vie privée, un problème de vieux cons ?
A provocative, well-reported take on privacy in the digital age — answering the cliché that 'young people don't care about privacy' — by an investigative journalist specialised in surveillance.
Beginner3/5Jean-Marc Manach04 · 2018
Cyberstructure
An engineer's lucid account of how the Internet actually works — and why its technical architecture is a political space that shapes human rights — by a DNS specialist at AFNIC.
Intermediate4/5Stéphane Bortzmeyer05 · 2023
A Hacker's Mind
Bruce Schneier extends the security-engineering frame of "hacking" to law, finance, politics, and tax: every rule-based system has exploitable seams, and the wealthy and powerful exploit them constantly.
Beginner4/5Bruce Schneier06 · 2018
Click Here to Kill Everybody
Bruce Schneier's policy-level argument that as everything becomes a computer (cars, medical devices, infrastructure, voting), the security failures that used to merely cost us money will start costing lives — and the regulatory shape of that future is being decided now.
Beginner4/5Bruce Schneier07 · 2024
Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations
Micah Lee on the operational craft of working with leaked datasets: authentication, OPSEC for sources and journalists, and the Python tooling to actually parse what arrives in your dropbox.
Beginner4/5Micah Lee08 · 2017
La face cachée d'internet
A lively, expert tour of the Internet's hidden layers — hackers, the dark web, Tor, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, Bitcoin — that demystifies the jargon without dumbing it down.
Beginner4/5Rayna Stamboliyska