Wendy M. Grossman is an award-winning American freelance writer based in London who specializes in the intersection of computers, freedom, and privacy, which she writes about weekly at the net.wars blog. In her 30-plus-year career she has contributed to the Guardian, New Scientist, Scientific American, and Wired. She is the founder of Britain’s The Skeptic magazine and a Fellow of the Center for Scientific Inquiry. She is also a sometime folksinger.