Best Policy books

Technopolitique

Comment la technologie fait de nous des soldats

A sharp, current essay on how digital technology, AI and platform power have turned citizens into actors in a permanent informational and geopolitical conflict, by a prominent French tech-politics scholar.

A Hacker's Mind

How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back

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.

À la trace

Enquête sur les nouveaux territoires de la surveillance

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.

Click Here to Kill Everybody

Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World

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.

Cyberstructure

L'Internet, un espace politique

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.

Surveillance://

Les libertés au défi du numérique

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.

Cybercriminalité

Comprendre, prévenir, réagir

Solange Ghernaouti's structured treatment of cybercrime — how it works, how to prevent it, how to respond — spanning technical, legal and organisational angles.

RGPD et droit des données personnelles

A complete French manual on data-protection law under the GDPR and the 2018 loi Informatique et Libertés — obligations, rights and how to comply — by an engineer and doctor of law.

La cybersécurité

Que sais-je ?

A pocket-sized primer on cybersecurity as a societal and geopolitical issue — threats, actors, stakes and policy — in the classic French “Que sais-je ?” format.

Cybercriminalité

Droit pénal appliqué

A practitioner's treatment of cybercrime law — offences, procedure, and the application of criminal law to digital crime — by a French magistrate specialised in the field.

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.