# Your Data Will Be Used Against You (Ferguson, 2026) - Weekend Book Review

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Podcast: [Revise and Resubmit - The Mayukh Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/revise-and-resubmit-the-mayukh-show-7034621)
Published: 2026-03-28T23:35:00+00:00
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English Podcast starts at 01:00:25 Bengali Podcast Starts at 01:26:44 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:45:41 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:01:13 Reference Ferguson, A. G. (2026). Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance. NYU Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.35529379 ‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Connect on linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayukhpsm/ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎧📚, and to this episode of Weekend Book Review . There are books that arrive like arguments, and there are books that arrive like warnings whispered just a little too late. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson’s Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance , published on 17 March 2026 by New York University Press , feels to me like both. It is not simply a book about technology, and not only a book about law. It is a book about us, about the quiet bargain we make every day with the glowing, listening, tracking devices we welcome into our homes, our cars, our wrists, and finally, our lives. 🔍📱⌚🏠 I came to this book with a familiar modern assumption, that convenience is innocent. That if a smartwatch helps me sleep better, or a smart speaker makes life easier, then the story ends there. But Ferguson asks us to sit still for a harder truth. What if the same technologies that comfort us also testify against us? What if the digital traces of ordinary life become the raw material of suspicion, prosecution, and control? ⚖️🧠 And Ferguson is exactly the kind of guide you want for such a reckoning. He is a Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School , a nationally recognized expert on surveillance technologies, policing, and criminal justice, and the author of the award-winning The Rise of Big Data…

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