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Susan Landau

Author, "Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies"

Susan Landau is a professor of cybersecurity policy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Landau has been a senior staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Wesleyan University, and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, and Yale, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security?
The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies
(MIT Press, 2011), and co-author, with Whitfield Diffie, of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption(MIT Press, original edition: 1998; rev. 2007). She has testified in Congress on surveillance and cybersecurity issues, and written numerous computer science and public policy papers, and op-eds on cybersecurity and encryption policy. A 2012 Guggenheim fellow, Landau was a 2010-2011 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the recipient of the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, and also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Computing Machinery.