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Book Review Information Polity 20 (2015) 325–327 325 DOI 10.3233/IP-150356 IOS Press Review Of David Wright And Rheinhard Kreissl (eds), Surveillance In Europe, (Routledge, 2015) This edited collection is a product of research conducted under the IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) project funded through the European Commission. It brings together contribu- tions from a range of scholars from across Europe, and claims to be an “accessible, definitive and com- prehensive overview” of the rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of surveillance studies in Europe. It is co-edited by David Wright, Managing Partner of Trilateral Research and Consulting and Reinhard Kreissl, Scientific Director of the Institute of Sociology and Law and Criminology (IRKS) in Vienna. The backdrop is, of course, the “Snowden revelations” and the book begins with a useful historical overview by Wright and Kreissl of the political, legal and social responses to these events in Europe, and with an analysis of how they have fuelled a renewed debate about the intrusiveness of the state. The next chapter by Goos, Friedewald, Webster and Leleux reviews a long series of surveillance programs, concludes that “surveillance is (and always has been) a normal element of modern European society” and reminds us of the “complex http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Information Polity IOS Press

Book Review

Information Polity , Volume 20 (4): 3 – Nov 25, 2015
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Information Polity 20 (2015) 325–327 325 DOI 10.3233/IP-150356 IOS Press Review Of David Wright And Rheinhard Kreissl (eds), Surveillance In Europe, (Routledge, 2015) This edited collection is a product of research conducted under the IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) project funded through the European Commission. It brings together contribu- tions from a range of scholars from across Europe, and claims to be an “accessible, definitive and com- prehensive overview” of the rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of surveillance studies in Europe. It is co-edited by David Wright, Managing Partner of Trilateral Research and Consulting and Reinhard Kreissl, Scientific Director of the Institute of Sociology and Law and Criminology (IRKS) in Vienna. The backdrop is, of course, the “Snowden revelations” and the book begins with a useful historical overview by Wright and Kreissl of the political, legal and social responses to these events in Europe, and with an analysis of how they have fuelled a renewed debate about the intrusiveness of the state. The next chapter by Goos, Friedewald, Webster and Leleux reviews a long series of surveillance programs, concludes that “surveillance is (and always has been) a normal element of modern European society” and reminds us of the “complex

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Published: Nov 25, 2015

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