Anne Roth

Political scientist, blogger, net and media activist

Anne Roth is a network policy advisor for the parliamentary group Die Linke in the German Bundestag. In 2018, she briefly worked as a research assistant in the Bundestag office of Anke Domscheit-Berg. Prior to that, she was a consultant in the Bundestag's NSA investigative committee from 2014 to 2017. From 2012 to August 2014 she was a research assistant at the NGO Tactical Tech, where she was responsible for tracking and digital security. Among other things, she was responsible for the website https://myshadow.org and worked on the renowned project 'Security in a Box'.

She is a political scientist, blogger, net and media activist and has been on the net since the end of the 1990s. She has worked as a journalist, online editor and translator.
She writes and speaks about domestic politics, media, net politics and feminism. Her topics include: secret services, technical surveillance, commercial surveillance, parliamentary control, security agencies.
Besides her own blog annalist, she is a casual blogger at netzpolitik.org and the Zeit online section "10 past 8". She also wrote for the FAZ blog "Ich. Heute. 10 vor 8", the movement blog of "Neues Deutschland", Freitag and various trade journals. In March 2014, she launched the Speakerinnen-Liste together with the Railsgirls group 'Rubymonsters' and runs the project '50 Prozent', which documents how many (better: few) women speak at conferences.