It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour.… — 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
