Heather Brooke Quotes
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Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?
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Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.
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I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
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What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.
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Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
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CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
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For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.
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When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
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The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.
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Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.
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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 the people in power in power, and I don't think they should be.
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I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.
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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
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We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
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I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.
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It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.
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Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak.
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If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
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Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.
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The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.
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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 their industry publicised.
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Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value.
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Traditional publishers require an author to submit a manuscript six months in advance, and if pressed, no later than two or three.
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Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.