Cyrus Farivar has been hired by NBC News as an investigative tech reporter.
Farivar is currently a senior tech policy reporter at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio producer.
His second book, “Habeas Data,” about the legal cases over the last 50 years that have had an outsized impact on surveillance and privacy law in America, is out now from Melville House. His first book, “The Internet of Elsewhere” — about the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world, including Senegal, Iran, Estonia and South Korea — was published in April 2011.
He previously was the sci-tech editor, and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English, Germany’s international broadcaster.
He has also reported for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, The Economist, Wired, The New York Times and many others.
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