Svea Eckert works as a freelance journalist for Germany's main public service broadcaster "Das Erste" (ARD). She is researching and reporting investigative issues for the PrimeTime news shows and high quality documentaries. Her main focus lies on new technology: computer and network security, digital economics and data protection.

Bigger projects and documentaries are for example "Superpower Wikileaks?" (ARD), "Facebook - Billion Dollar Business friendship" (ARD), her first book "Monitored and spied out: Prism, NSA, Facebook & Co" and in 2015 "Netwars" (ARD). Svea Eckert studied "Journalism and Communications" and Economics in Hamburg. She completed her journalistic training at NDR, Hamburg and Hannover.

Twitter: @sveckert Website: www.sveaeckert.de