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Heather Brooke
Heather Brooke
American Journalist
Born: 1970
About Age Digital Internet People You
Related authors: Ambrose Bierce Dave Barry Erma Bombeck Hunter S. Thompson Mignon McLaughlin Walter Cronkite William F. Buckley, Jr. William Lloyd Garrison
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. Heather Brooke
Technology Will Seen Argument Solid Civil About Data Costs Lead Quantity Continue Domain Effectiveness Very Surveillance Behaviour Either While Public Little Dystopia Public Domain Streets Symbol
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. Heather Brooke
Future Hacker Community Possesses Small Driving Economies Global May Skills
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes. Heather Brooke
Justice Care Club Community Benefit Solely System See Classes Entire More Costs Lawyers Sort Judges Becomes Cozy Than Afford Upper Done Middle Being Being Done Public Little Then
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. Heather Brooke
Best Free Relations Worst Promotion About Free Flow Outright Never Deception Information Public Manipulation Public Relations Evasion Flow
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people. Heather Brooke
People State Part Exists Monarchy Serve
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it? Heather Brooke
People Free Somewhere Fall License Must Cost Someone Costs Through Never Fee Longer Advertising Industry Been Covering Patron Whether Newspapers Use Who Appear Why Why Not Largesse
Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations. Heather Brooke
Relations Bad Know How Public Certainly Public Relations
Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security. Heather Brooke
Good National Politicians Secrecy Claim Security Governance National Security Often Good Governance Necessary
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You've got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world's giantest spy center. Heather Brooke
You Intelligence World Protection Building National Considered Security Drones Sharing Got Domestic Spy Surveillance America National Security Being Center Agency Cyber Act Now
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. Heather Brooke
Service Justice Pay Enough Criminal Our Delayed Leads Particularly Court Courts Lot Which
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. Heather Brooke
Nature You Money Free Accountability Human Nature Would Would-Be Faced Bag Most Make Were Huge Very Any Human Little Us
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect. Heather Brooke
People Communicate Society Able Abuse Happen Biggest Connect
There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well. Heather Brooke
Culture Society Secrecy Secret Would Well Passes Been Very Intense Any Transparency Serve Here Britain
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. Heather Brooke
Buy People Own Corporate Background Data Investigators Checks Industry Doing Private Forensic Very Get Want Companies
People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall. Heather Brooke
People Events Find Similar Data Consumers Come Empowered Go Lot Governments Quickly Wall Expecting Getting Quite Being Influence Want Information Used Brick Brick Wall Treatment
It is scrutiny by the general public that keeps the powerful honest. Heather Brooke
General General Public Powerful Public Scrutiny Keeps Honest
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful. Heather Brooke
Time Me You People Try Space Will Long Long Time Become Difficult Way Though Would Feared Somehow Someone Spiteful Like Smear Look Because Deals Were Being Where Establishment Them Ignore Now Vindictive
I like to write books and cause trouble. Heather Brooke
Cause Trouble Books Write Like
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice. Heather Brooke
Work You Money Value Think Other Spend Journalists Least Any Then Choice Your Serious
I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself. Heather Brooke
Myself British Press Press Out Carving Always Fringe Establishment Worked Niche British
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. Heather Brooke
Vote People Power Think Definitely Temptation Fact Protest Does In Fact Should Keep
As the news agenda goes into warp speed, it becomes ever more difficult for authors writing about current events to keep their books timely and relevant. Heather Brooke
News Writing Events Difficult Speed Books Relevant About More Becomes Timely Goes Authors Current Current Events Agenda Warp Keep Ever
I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude. Heather Brooke
Work Attitude Journalist More Sources Trained America Where Frowned Flexible Paying Now
I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks. Heather Brooke
Freedom Cause Wikileaks Support Obviously Information
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary. Heather Brooke
Hope You Change Better Result Minister Prime Prime Minister Announce Major Hours Documentary Policy Within Than Your
There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death. Heather Brooke
Death Everywhere Alive Carries Risk Being
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