Ryan Singel is a

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-based blogger and journalist covering tech business, tech policy, civil liberty and privacy issues. His work has appeared extensively in '' Wired.com'', and Singel co-founded the Threat Level

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with journalist and convicted hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen. As of 2008, he began covering tech business news for " Wired.com"'s Epicenter blog. Singel has covered issues of government monitoring, and has been a chronicler of

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involvement in the

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. Involvement by ''Wired News'' in the case has been criticized by federal authorities. Singel also founded a copy editing company called The Universal Desk in 2009. In 2012, Singel left his job at Wired to run the startup called Contextly, an engagement platform for publishers.

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