Rebecca Ciesielski

Rebecca Ciesielski was selected for the 2025 Shortlist with Under Surveillance. How Location Data Jeopardizes German Security

Rebecca Ciesielski is a reporter specialising in algorithmic accountability reporting at Bayerischer Rundfunk’s AI + Automation Lab. She has investigated how biometric data endangers people’s lives in Afghanistan, how call centres use AI emotion recognition to monitor employees, the security risks of location data from smartphone apps, and other AI and automation topics. Her work has won the Grimme Online Award, the German Computer Science Journalism Prize and the Punkt Award for technology journalism.