pThis volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy-security trade-off, focusing on the citizen's perspective.ppppRecent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious reactions to these activities shows that the political will to implement them appears to be an unbroken trend. The resulting move into a surveillance society is, however, contested for many reasons. Are the resulting infringements of privacy and other human rights compatible with democratic societies Is security necessarily depending on surveillance Are there alternative ways to frame security Is it possible to gain in security by giving up civil liberties, or is it even necessary to do so, and do citizens adopt this trade-off This volume contributes to a better and deeper understanding of the relation between privacy, surveillance and security, comprising in-depth inv