Dr Maria Helen Murphy has recently published a new book, Surveillance and the Law: Language, Power, and Privacy. The book analyses the core features of surveillance that create stark challenges for transparency and accountability by examining the relationship between language, power, and surveillance. It identifies a number of features of surveillance law, surveillance language, and the distribution of power that perpetuate the existing surveillance paradigm. Using case studies from the US, the UK, and Ireland, it assesses the techniques used to maintain the status quo of continued surveillance expansion. These jurisdictions are selected for their similarities, but also for their key constitutional distinctions, which influence how power is distributed and restrained in the different systems. Though the book maintains that the classic principles of transparency and accountability remain the best means available to limit the arbitrary exercise of government power, it evaluates how these principles could be better realised in order to restore power to the people and to maintain an appropriate balance between government intrusion and the right to privacy. By identifying the common tactics used in the expansion of surveillance around the globe, this book will appeal to students and scholars interested in privacy law, human rights, information technology law, and surveillance studies. In particular, the book is likely to be of interest to students undertaking Dr Murphy's modules in Information Privacy Law (LW647) and Civil Liberties (LW455). The book can be purchased in hardback or as an ebook at https://www.routledge.com/Surveillance-and-the-Law-Language-Power-and-Privacy/Murphy/p/book/9781138599901