Julia Angwin is a senior reporter at ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book "Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance," was published by Times Books in 2014.
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” (Random House, March 2009).
She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.
Articles
Oct. 15, 10:59 a.m.
Documents describe "contractual relationships" between NSA and U.S. companies, as well as undercover operatives at some U.S. companies.
Sep. 23, 8 a.m.
Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has long received funding from Google, but a filing shows the university recently pledged to only use the money for non-privacy research. Academics say such promises are problematic.
July 21, 9 a.m.
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
July 9, 5:01 p.m.
If you downloaded the privacy software Tor in 2011, you may have been flagged to be spied on.
June 30, 11:56 a.m.
We plotted the NSA programs, showing which ones fall squarely into the agency’s stated mission of foreign surveillance, and which ones are more controversial.
June 30, 11:54 a.m.
How we categorized the various NSA revelations from the past year.
June 17, 12:26 p.m.
Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web.
June 12, 9:11 a.m.
The merger of online and offline data is bringing more intrusive tracking.
May 6, 3 p.m.
Here are some techniques that anybody can use to protect their privacy online.
April 15, 12:50 p.m.
One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that the U.S. needs to stop running Internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project.
March 24, 12:30 p.m.
A person’s location can be hugely revealing. Here are some tips on how to mask the information your computer and phone transmit automatically.
Feb. 11, 4:06 p.m.
This hand-drawn graphic, which is undated, was made by the East German secret police and appears to show the social connections the Stasi gleaned about a poet they were spying on.
Feb. 11, 4:02 p.m.
Files obtained from the archives of the East German secret police show how far technology of spycraft has come.
Jan. 30, 1:29 p.m.
Data brokers don't make it easy to see the data they hold about you. Here's what you can do to opt-out.
Jan. 28, 2:30 p.m.
We lay out more from our story about how the NSA and its British counterpart have been scouring smartphone apps.
Jan. 21, 11:19 a.m.
The conventional wisdom about how to build strong passwords can be counter-productive. Here are some better ways to build passwords that are hard to crack.
Jan. 14, 2:22 p.m.
It’s not easy to keep your data private while surfing the Internet, but here are a few tools that can help.