Finn Brunton is an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication. He is the author of Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet (2013) and, with Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (2015), both from the MIT Press.
Finn Brunton
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Writing on Public Books
AI: Machines or Magic?
AI has always only partially been about the actual future of probable developments and base-rate outcomes; it has also been singularly productive of philosophical speculation, fantasy, and arguments about ourselves and the future …
How to Hide in Plain Sight: A Visual Essay
In an age of constant surveillance, is it possible to find autonomy online? In our book Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, Helen Nissenbaum and I look at how Internet users protect their data from governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. One strategy in particular drew our attention: obfuscation, or the deliberate production of […]
