particularly after the brexit stories
broke which in Britain is a highly
politically charged issue that's where
the implicated parties that I was I was
whistle blowing on weren't just you know
this abstract tech company in Silicon
Valley that everybody could kind of
bandy around go yeah these guys are you
know need they need to change all the
sudden it was the Prime Minister's
office the government ministers and more
broadly the entire Pro leaf campaign
which I think prompted a lot of fairly
good triolic reaction so since since
those sets of stories have come out I've
been physically assaulted several times
in the street somebody wants to push me
into traffic I've been followed into gay
clubs for example where alt-right blogs
would send photographers so you take
pictures of me and people that I was
with to then post on all right blogs and
forums the next day so that that has
being you know not necessarily the
easiest to deal with but again like
anything you start to actually just get
used to it so what made me decide to go
public I think with me there was no
single moment that prompted me to decide
to go public it was a process so it
started first working with the Guardian
as an anonymous source at least to get
some of the information out there in the
public it also started with me working
with some of the law enforcement
agencies in the UK you know months
before the stories actually came out so
that a proper investigation
the subject matter would you know be
underway by the time it reached the
public the the thing that I suppose
prompted me to come forward was the
exceptional situation that I was in
where I actually had quite a bit of
support most people don't have that and
I think that's why we we don't see a lot
of people coming forwards how is my life
changed well it's gotten a lot busier I
was very much a private person you've
never done any kind of media anything
before I had avoided any kind of public
attention any kind of media once the
story came out and sort of blew up in
the way that it did I had to sort of let
go of that that old habit and embrace
the fact that people want to talk about
it and talk to me about it you know the
reaction for me is heartwarming because
what it shows is that people do care
about the issues but I did want to raise
and that because people care about it
lawmakers are now starting to pay
attention to it and also not just
lawmakers but the tech sector in general
which I think actually more changes will
happen internally from from the tech
sector or more rapid Chino's rather so I
find that a heartwarming but how is my
life change it's just gotten a lot
busier
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