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Julia Angwin

Topics

Journalism, Science and Technology

Travels From

New York

Bio

Julia Angwin is an award-winning senior investigative reporter at ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom in New York. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at , where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a in 2010. Her book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance was shortlisted for Best Business Book of the Year by the Financial Times. Julia is an accomplished and sought-after speaker on the topics of privacy, technology, and the quantified society that we live in. Among the many venues at which she has spoken are the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and keynotes at the Strata big data conference and the International Association of Privacy Professionals. In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America. She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the and an MBA from the

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Graduate School of Business at . Learn more about Julia Angwin on her website and follow her on Twitter.

SPEECHES

Privacy as a Luxury Good In this talk, Julia tells her personal story about trying to protect her privacy. During the process, she realized that privacy had transformed into an expensive luxury good. Her goal is to re-frame the conversation of privacy as a human right rather than a consumer product.

Artificial Intelligence Economy: Its Effect on Free Speech and Thought Julia explores the role that algorithms and artificial intelligence play in our lives, as well as how difficult it is to hold machines accountable for the decisions they make.

BOOKS

Paperback Dragnet NationA Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

St. Martin’s Griffin

In Dragnet Nation, award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin reports from the front lines of America's surveillance economy, offering a

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revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data.

REVIEWS: Praise for Dragnet Nation:

“Welcome to life in a society of ubiquitous surveillance, tracking and data mining... Angwin, a Wall Street Journal reporter who along with her colleagues has produced essential reporting on privacy and security … aims to illuminate the costs of living with systems that track nearly everything we do, think or say… [and] she performs a herculean effort to regain her privacy… A useful, well-reported study.” —The

“I read Julia Angwin's new book Dragnet Nation… I heartily recommend it to you… [The book is an] antidote to Big Brother's big chill.” —Bill Moyers

“A deeply researched book that is completely of the moment. Dragnet Nation moves right to the top of the list of books we should all read about privacy.” —Salon

“Angwin's warning that ‘information is power' resonates.” —The Daily Beast

“Angwin elegantly chronicles this tragedy of the digital commons at the level of policy and our individual civil liberties…Dragnet Nation really kicks in--and becomes a blast to read--when she fights back…If enough people follow Angwin's lead, new networks of computer users might manage to open up ever larger holes in the dragnet world.” —Bookforum

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