Book review: Radical secrecy: The ends of transparency in datafied America

Stevens, Clare ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5685-7930 2022. Book review: Radical secrecy: The ends of transparency in datafied America. [Online]. Security Dialogue. Available at: https://blogs.prio.org/SecurityDialogue/2022/01/bo...

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Abstract

Why is it that debates about trade-offs between supposed binary opposites of secrecy and transparency, and between secrecy and security, so often feel unsatisfying? As Clare Birchall acutely points out in her new book, Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America (2021), to question transparency in liberal democracies today is (seemingly) to be opposed to progress, to be corrupt, or to be antidemocratic. However, in this era of digital data and the power and economic value associated with its flows and accumulations, Birchall’s important work joins a school of scholars such as Jodi Dean, Alasdair Roberts, Lisa Stampnitzky and Shoshana Zuboff (to name just a few) in critiquing the narratives of secrecy, transparency, revelation/exposure and surveillance capitalism.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Cardiff Law & Politics
Publisher:	Security Dialogue
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2024 15:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/165167

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