Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica, where, in 2016, she led a team investigating algorithms that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. From 2000 to 2013, she reported for The Wall Street Journal, where her team of reporters won the 2003 Explanatory Reporting Pulitzer covering corporate corruption, and she received a 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for her privacy coverage. Angwin authored Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, which was shortlisted for Financial Times’ 2014 Best Business Book of the Year, and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America.
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