jean-marc manach

jean-marc manach

jean-marc manach is a french investigative & OSINT (data)journalist based in Paris, France, working on surveillance, privacy and intelligence issues (among other things) since the late 90s.

He has written numerous information security manuals explaining how to protect ones sources and communications, worked with Reporters Without Borders for their Online survival kit, with WikiLeaks on numerous issues, including its SpyFiles, and wrote two books about privacy and the surveillance society, and another about Amesys, the french company who designed and sold a “massive interception” system for Muammar Gaddafi's libya intelligence services.

In 2013, prior to Snowden’s coming out, he co-authored a documentary, “A Counter History of the Internet”, featuring several internet freedom fighters including Julian Assange, John Perry Barlow, Rickard Falkvinge, Eben Moglen, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Bruce Schneier and Richard Stallman.

In 2014, he was part of The Migrant Files, a project wich revealed that, since 2000, more than 23 000 migrants died trying to seek refuge in Europe, which received a Data Journalism Awards and an European Press Prize but also, and above all, pushed the IOM and the UNHCR to count them since.