Heather Brooke
Heather Brooke
Heather Rose Brookeis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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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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We pay a lot for our court service, but it's not enough. Courts are under-resourced, which leads to delayed justice - particularly in criminal courts.
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We need to codify our values and build consensus around what we want from a free society and a free Internet. We need to put into law protections for our privacy and our right to speak and assemble.
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If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.
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A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.
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What the Internet has done is it has decentralised power.
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What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.
people politics
There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.
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There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
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The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.
My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
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In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.
optimistic
I'm very optimistic, but I'm optimistic about individuals, not institutions.
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I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.