Book Review: Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz

Why Data Isn’t Just About You, And Never Was

I didn’t expect this book to make me feel uneasy. That is probably the most honest place to begin. There are books that echo what you already know, and others that stir something deeper, unsettling the mental furniture you did not realise had become so fixed. Privacy is Power managed to do both. It confirmed some quiet suspicions I had been carrying for years, and then, just when I thought I was on stable ground, it tipped me into something much more urgent. Véliz does not scream. She does not dramatise. But her words are scalpel-sharp, and they cut straight through the complacency that surrounds our digital lives.