Yael Grauer

Yael is an investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking, and mass surveillance. She currently works at Consumer Reports managing Security Planner, a free, easy-to-use guide to staying safer online. She has also freelanced for over a decade, with bylines at Ars Technica, Insider, Slate, The Intercept, OneZero, Popular Science, Vice, Wirecutter, WIRED, and other publications. Yael holds an undergraduate degree in Social Sciences from Shimer College and a masters degree in journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, but she is a bit shaky behind the camera. Yael lives in Phoenix with her husband and their adorable rescue chiweenie. In her spare time, Yael enjoys hiking, cooking, playing folk guitar, drinking fancy cocktails, reading academic research, playing puzzle games, lifting heavy things, and going to hacking conferences. Find her at yaelwrites.com.