Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form,… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America,… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
There's a temptation not to vote at all as a protest, but it's definitely not a protest. In fact, all it does is keep… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data... They don't want… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
