Guy Herbert was born in Oxford. He has worked for most of the past 25 years in one phase of publishing or another, from retail bookselling to literary agency, and is now a business affairs consultant covering computer games as well as director of a traditional literary/screenwriting agency. Though he stood for parliament in 1992 in the Green interest, his preferred description of his own politics is ‘Tory anarchist’. He writes sporadically for both the well-known blog Samizdata and the Guardian‘s Comment is Free. He has been the volunteer General Secretary of NO2ID since the end of 2004, having previously been the founding editor of its fortnightly email newsletter, and in the past six years has been responsible for many different tasks in the organisation from its strategy to its envelopes. As well as maintaining the administration, he oversees much of its policy analysis, and has both presented evidence to parliamentary committees and drafted NO2ID’s responses to several government consultations. |
“They’ve got your number: the silent boom in mass surveillance” in Big Brother Watch (ed. Alex Deane, Biteback, 2010)
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