Quotes by Heather Brooke

About Heather Brooke:

Heather Rose Brooke is a British-American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. Resident since the 1990s in the UK, she helped to expose the 2009 expenses scandal, which culminated in the resignation of House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin.
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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.

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Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital ...

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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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It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

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What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

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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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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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If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.

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I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.

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The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

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Whether I'll get the chance to write fiction, I don't know. I could do political conspiracy thrillers, couldn't I? With an investigative journalist as the heroine.

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In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.

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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.

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There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through thi...

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There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

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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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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

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Politicians often claim secrecy is necessary for good governance or national security.

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When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

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Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.

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Author Bio

  • NameHeather Brooke
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • Born1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist