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The journey from an immature idea to a finished book can be a strange one, as the journey of the idea that became this book thoroughly demonstrates. It is the direct result of my pursuit of a Ph.D., but it originated at a destination far removed from Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. My interests have always been varied, and I started the Ph.D. process working on environmental ethics and the classical social contract tradition. There is one common denominator between where I started and where I ended up, howeverdpolitical philosophy. However, I have also always been interested in and intrigued by technology. When the idea emerged of combining technology with my love for philosophy, the proverbial pieces fell in place. My ideas have a tendency to be born in a format not containable by the bounds available to pursue them. This was certainly the case with my desire to describe the threats posed by Big Data. When I decided to first test the waters where technology is combined with political philosophy, I wrote a draft article titled “Freedom under the Gaze of Big Brother: A Liberal Defence against the Perils of Big Data.” It was an article bursting at its seams, as I wanted to make a number of what I perceived to be important points at once. Big Data, I argued, was problematic due to its effects on liberty through surveillance, nudging, and the curation of information. My Ph.D. supervisors got this draft of about 13,000 words, and proceeded to calmly relay the message that this is not really one of the articles in a dissertation. It is the beginning of several articles, and in and of itself it attempts to do far too much. The draft was submitted on September 18, 2018. Fast forward 2.5 years and that draft has evolved into my dissertation and, later on, this book. My dissertation, defended at the University of Oslo, Norway, consisted of three articles on three distinct threats to liberty posed by Big Data. This required me to cut apart the three ideas contained in my original draft, while I was able to write an introduction that explained how they were related. However, as I originally intended to write a coherent story describing the threat of Big Data, I reached out to Elsevier, who had published all the three articles, with a proposal for this very book, where I tied things back together in a format more conducive to telling a more comprehensive story. After defending my dissertation in the autumn of 2020, I then proceeded to reintegrate the various arguments into a book describing its totality.