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Informationen zum Autor Heather Brooke is a journalist and Freedom of Information campaigner based in London who is famous for uncovering the MPs' expenses scandal. She writes for the main national papers and has worked as a consultant and presenter for Channel 4's Dispatches . She is a visiting professor at City University's Department of Journalism and is also the author of Your Right to Know and The Silent State . In 2009 she was named Reformer of the Year and has won numerous awards! including the Setting the Political Agenda Award from the Political Studies Association and! in 2010! Judges' Prize at the British Press Awards. Klappentext There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control? Circling them is a new generation of hackers! pro-democracy campaigners and internet activists who no longer accept that the Establishment should run the show. And will the internet empower individuals! or usher in a new age of censorship! surveillance and oppression? Zusammenfassung There is more information in the world than ever before - but who's in control?At the centre sits the Establishment: governments, corporations and powerful individuals who have more knowledge about us, and more power, than ever before.
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Brooke hasn't set out to write just another inside account of the Wikileaks saga: this is a mélange of anecdote, imagination and experience designed to open our eyes to the possibility of digital change ... feisty and vivid and honest. Guardian
