Susan Landau works in cybersecurity, privacy, and public policy. She
has been Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty
member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Wesleyan
University. She 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, 1998, rev. ed. 2007). She has written numerous computer
science and public policy papers and op-eds on cybersecurity and
encryption policy, and she has testified in Congress on the security
risks of wiretapping and on cybersecurity activities at NIST's
Information Technology Laboratory. Landau currently serves on the
Computer Science Telecommunications Board of the National Research
Council. 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. She is currently working as a Senior Staff Privacy
Analyst at Google.