Security Madness, Surveillance State and the Dismantling of Civil Rights') is a 2009 book by the German writers Ilija Trojanow and Juli Zeh.

The surveillance is driven by banks who keep track of transactions, IT companies who can access communication, private businesses who benefit from collecting data, criminals who commit fraud and states who use it to identify potential terrorists.

The authors argue that they do not live in a democracy and that freedom depends on an attitude where people understand that laws actually apply to them, not only to terrorists.

[1] Milos Vec of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says it is not subtle and contains nothing new, and its message may have been more powerful if given a literary treatment, bringing up Zeh's own dystopian novel The Method (2009) as an example of that.

As a polemical treatment of the subject, Vec says it is inferior to Dietmar Kammerer's Bilder der Überwachung, published the year before.