page = julia angwin – the markup
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Before founding The Markup, she led investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009). She has a B.A. in mathematics from The University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University.
Julia’s OpenPGP key fingerprint is F292 E93A 86B3 1713 05A6  FE9F 85C9 09BB C664 D201.
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