Public Statement of Support for Julia Angwin
As members of the public interested in the promise of data-centered journalism, we wish to express our unwavering support for Julia Angwin.
Julia’s work is the gold standard. She is a leader in tech journalism, and her investigations and reporting have undeniably had a considerable positive impact on the sector at large.
We oppose her recent ouster as Editor in Chief of the Markup — the entity she founded — and express deep disappointment at the implication that she was let go in order to shift the focus of the publication to “advocating against tech companies.”
Now more than ever the world needs principled, data driven tech reporting of the kind that Julia has built her career on. The Markup is set to launch in July and should not do so without Julia at the helm. We encourage all her original funders to investigate this situation and to take steps to ensure that the Markup stays true to its founding principles.
Sincerely,
(*If you would like to add your name please drop a comment. Any affiliations will be added for identification only*)
Mario Aguilar, Deputy Editor, Gizmodo
Ben Arnon, Color Farm Media
Patrick Ball, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Kevin Bankston, Director, New America’s Open Technology Institute
Christine Bannan, Consumer Protection Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Renata Barreto, JD / PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley School of Law
Lindsey Barrett, Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown Law
Burcu Baykurt, Columbia University
Alvaro M. Bedoya, Founding Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University
Wafa Ben-Hassine, Policy Counsel at Access Now
Griffin Boyce, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
danah boyd/ Microsoft Research and Data & Society
Joshua Braun, Associate Professor of Journalism, UMass Amherst
David Brody, Counsel & Senior Fellow for Privacy and Technology, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Justin Brookman
Sean Brooks, Director, Citizen Clinic — UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Deborah Brown, Global Policy Advocacy Lead, Association for Progressive Communications
Monica Bulger, Senior Fellow, Future of Privacy Forum
Georgia Bullen, Executive Director, Simply Secure
Ryan Calo, Tech Policy Lab
JC Cannon, Privacy Activist, Former Dir. of Privacy, Microsoft Corporation
Robyn Caplan, Phd Candidate at Rutgers University, Affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute
Karla Carter
Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. leading the Privacy by Design Center of Excellence, Toronto, Canada
Christine Chen, independent consultant
Jon Christian, news editor at Futurism
Danielle Keats Citron, Prof of Law, University of Maryland School of Law (Prof of Law at Boston U School of Law as of July 1, 2019)
Maggie Clifford, PhD student, American University School of Communication
Rena Coen, privacy researcher
Cindy Cohn, Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy, McGill University
Zane Cooper, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Kate Crawford, co-founder and co-director of the AI Now Institute, NYU
Kade Crockford, Director, Technology for Liberty Program, ACLU of Massachusetts
Michelle De Mooy, Privacy and Data Ethics Consultant, former Director of the Privacy and Data Project at the Center for Democracy & Technology
Ángel Díaz, Liberty & National Security Counsel — Brennan Center for Justice
Judith Donath, Berkman-Klein Center @ Harvard University
Lilian Edwards, Professor of Law and Innovation, Newcastle Law School
Serge Egelman, International Computer Science Institute / U.C. Berkeley
Madeleine Clare Elish, Research Lead, Data & Society Research Institute
Kai Falkenberg, Media Lawyer & Columbia Law Lecturer in Law
Jim Fenton, Independent technologist
Ayden Férdeline, Technology Policy Fellow, Mozilla
Bill Fitzgerald
Roger Ford, Associate Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire
Camille Francois, Chief Innovation Officer, Graphika; Affiliate, Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society; Fellow, Mozilla
Vince Fulco, Weisisheng Corporate Management Consulting
Eva Galperin, security researcher
Gennie Gebhart, Associate Director of Research, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Alexandra Givens, Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy
Jeffrey Goldberg, 1Password
Yael Grauer, independent journalist
Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future
G.S. Hans, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University
Marcia Hofmann, Zeitgeist Law
Alexander B. Howard, E-PluribusUnum.org
Andrew Iliadis, Assistant Professor, Department of Media Studies and Production, Temple University
Joseph Jerome, Counsel, Privacy & Data Project, Center for Democracy & Technology
Elizabeth Joh, UC Davis School of Law
Mike Katz-Lacabe, Director of Research, Center for Human Rights and Privacy
Dragana Kaurin, Berkman Klein Center @ Harvard University
Ashkhen Kazaryan, Director of Civil Liberties, TechFreedom
Cameron F. Kerry, distinguished visiting fellow, The Brookings Institution
Aleksandra Korolova, University of Southern California
Daniel Leufer, AI policy & philosophy researcher
Micah Lee, security engineer and journalist at The Intercept
Douglas Levin, President, EdTech Strategies
Karen Levy, Cornell University, Department of Information Science
Kristian Lum, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Stephen Lynch
Barry C. Lynn, Executive Director, Open Markets Institute
Dave Maass, Senior Investigative Researcher, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Colin Maclay, University of Southern California
Micaela Mantegna, Researcher, Center for Technology and Society, San Andres University
Alice E. Marwick, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, UNC-Chapel Hill and Faculty Advisor, Data & Society Research Institute
Aaron Massey, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Clarkson University/ Data and Society Affiliate
Bailey McCann, Independent Journalist and Author
Sean McDonald, Digital Public
Peter A. McKay, independent consultant, former Wall Street Journal reporter
Andrew McLaughlin, board chair at Access Now
Corynne McSherry
Whitney Merrill, Privacy & Data Security Attorney and Founder of the Crypto & Privacy Village
Peter Micek, General Counsel, Access Now and Adjunct Professor, Columbia-SIPA
Dan Mitchell, independent journalist
Mary Mitchell
Heidi N. Moore, Independent Media Consultant
Emanuel Moss, PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center, Data & Society Research Analyst
Laura Moy, Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law
Paul Nemitz, Principal Advisor European Commission, Member of the German Data Ethics Commission
Sarah Newman, metaLAB at Harvard, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Eric Null, Senior Counsel, Open Technology Institute
Kurt Opsahl, Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Javier Pallero, Latam Policy Lead at Access Now
Eli Pariser, Author, The Filter Bubble
Christopher Parsons, Research Associate, Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Faiza Patel
Melody Patry, Advocacy Director at Access Now
Heather Patterson, Intel Labs and Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission
Meredith L. Patterson, Special Circumstances, LLC.
Jon Pincus, CTO, A Change is Coming
Laura Poitras, Filmmaker
Jules Polonetsky, CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
Katherine Pratt, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Megan Price, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Cooper Quintin, Senior Staff Technologist, EFF
Karen Reilly
Joel Reidenberg, Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Chair in Law, Founding Director, CLIP, Fordham University
Victoire Rio — Myanmar Tech accountability Network
Emory Roane, Policy Counsel, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
David Robinson, Upturn and Cornell University
Alex Rosenblat
David Ruiz, Content Writer, Malwarebytes Labs
Julie Samuels, Tech:NYC
Philip Di Salvo, researcher and lecturer, Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)
Maurizio Santamicone
Andrew Schrock, Aloi Research and Consulting & University of Southern California
Calli Schroeder, Privacy attorney and researcher
Ian Schuler, CEO Development Seed, Former Internet Freedom @ US State Department
Ross Schulman, Senior Policy Technologist, New America’s Open Technology Institute
Jason Schultz, NYU School of Law
David Segal, Executive Director of Demand Progress
Andrew Selbst, Postdoctoral Scholar, Data & Society Research Institute.
Andrew Sellars, Director, Technology Law Clinic, Boston University School of Law
Tarak Shah, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Ryan Shapiro, Executive Director, Property of the People
Elissa Shevinsky, Editor of “Lean Out: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech & Start-up Culture”
Caroline Sinders, researcher and fellow with the Mozilla Foundation
Ryan Singel, Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, former Wired editor
Ashkan Soltani, Independent Researcher and Consultant. Former FTC Chief Technologist, and consulting researcher for Julia Angwin @ the WSJ in 2009–2012
Amie Stepanovich, U.S. Policy Manager at Access Now
Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law School
dan tynan, independent journalist (adweek, guardian, fastco), former eic at yahoo tech
Amelia Vance, Director of Education Privacy, Future of Privacy Forum
James Vasile, Partner at Open Tech Strategies, Frmr Director of Open Internet Tools Project, Founder at FreedomBox Foundation
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah
Sandra Wachter, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Pat Walshe, independent consultant, Privacy Matters (Pat Walshe)
Rian Wanstreet, PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Nicholas Weaver, Lecturer in Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute
Gabriel Weinberg
Daniel Weitzner, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and Former White House Deputy CTO
Sarah Myers West, Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Now Institute, NYU
Marcy Wheeler, Independent journalist at emptywheel
Kenneth White, security researcher and DHS policy advisor
Royce Williams, security researcher and public-interest technologist
Marlena Wisniak, Stanford Law School / Investor Alliance for Human Rights
Nicole Wong, Former Deputy US Chief Technology Officer
Teddy Woodhouse, Research Analyst & Advocate, Web Foundation
John Wunderlich, Vice Chair of the Board, MyData Global @mydataorg
Scott Yates, Founder, Certified Content Coalition
Jillian C. York
Harlan Yu, Executive Director, Upturn
Ethan Zuckerman, Director, Center for Civic Media, MIT