{"id":2689,"date":"2009-10-28T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?page_id=2689"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:21:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1807825892_0dcc21cc54_b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3659\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3659\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1807825892_0dcc21cc54_b1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,685\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lake Merritt Oakland\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1807825892_0dcc21cc54_b1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3659\" src=\"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1807825892_0dcc21cc54_b1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Merritt Oakland\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1807825892_0dcc21cc54_b1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/1807825892_0dcc21cc54_b1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"docs-internal-guid-5aaace2b-94cd-6ae0-5ea7-678f2e30a971\" dir=\"ltr\">Cyrus [\u201csuh-ROOS\u201d] Farivar is an award-winning author, editor, and investigative tech journalist with 20+ years of experience. He is also the author of multiple books, including \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Habeas-Data-Privacy-Rise-Surveillance\/dp\/1612196462\">Habeas Data<\/a>\u201d (2018) and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Internet-Elsewhere-Emergent-Effects-Wired\/dp\/0813549620\">The Internet of Elsewhere<\/a>\u201d (2011).<\/p>\n<p>In October 2004, while in graduate school, he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/28\/technology\/new-food-for-ipods-audio-by-subscription.html\">The New York Times&#8217; very first story<\/a> about podcasting.<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus has written for Forbes, NBC News, Ars Technica, NPR, The Economist, Wired, and many others. He received his B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Based in Oakland, California, Cyrus is happy to nerd out anytime on wildfire, bikes, Star Trek, and public records requests.<\/p>\n<p>cyrus@farivar.media<br \/>\n+1.341.758.0888<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cfarivar\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cfarivar.bsky.social\">@cfarivar.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated: March 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyrus [\u201csuh-ROOS\u201d] Farivar is an award-winning author, editor, and investigative tech journalist with 20+ years of experience. He is also the author of multiple books, including \u201cHabeas Data\u201d (2018) and \u201cThe Internet of Elsewhere\u201d (2011). In October 2004, while in graduate school, he wrote The New York Times&#8217; very first story about podcasting. Cyrus has written for Forbes, NBC News, Ars Technica, NPR, The Economist, Wired, and many others. He received his B.A. in Political Economy from the University of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2689","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4uks-Hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2689\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}