The Surveillance Studies Network is please to announce that Professor Susan Landau has won the 2012 annual book prize for the best book published on the topic of surveillance in the year 2011 for her book, Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies, published by MIT Press.
The award committee recognized Dr. Landau’s analysis as a “nuanced, thorough and rigorously researched contribution that advances our understanding of the wiretapping capabilities that have been built into the structures of digital communication and the risks posed by this development.”
Congratulations to Professor Susan Landau.