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Review Of Julia Angwin's Dragnet Nation
Dragnet Nation was published in February 25, 2014 and written by astounded author Julia Angwin. Julia Angwin is an award winning investigative journalist for the independent news organization ProPublica. For 13 years she was a staff reporter for the wall street journal, where her team won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of corporate corruption. She also led the team on covering online privacy, where she was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Covering online privacy led to the development of her book called A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Julia narrates her attempt to at least minimize the persuasive surveillance of big corporations, she concludes that it is nearly impossible. In My
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