Yael Grauer is an investigative tech reporter covering online privacy and security, digital freedom and mass surveillance. For her day job, she works at Consumer Reports' Innovation Lab managing Security Planner, a free, easy-to-use guide to staying safer online. She's currently writing a book on investigations for No Starch Press, and has written articles for a ton of different tech publications. Yael has also co-organized events and spoken publicly about digital security, memory safety, source protection, ethics, VPNs, the audio capabilities of doorbell cameras, and more. She holds a Master of Mass Communication degree from ASU, which was an interesting way to kill time between DEF CONs.