Julia Angwin is the co-author of On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear. She is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, NYT contributing Opinion writer, and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She founded two nonprofit newsrooms—Proof News and The Markup—that investigate the impacts of technology. She is winner and two-time finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. She wrote NYT bestseller Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America.