Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Contrarian, Premier League and tennis fan, dog and art lover, democracy defender, and pro-Oxford comma. Book and travel recommendations welcomed.
Iris Fiona Brauer @ifbrauer.bsky.social democracy, law, trade | MPA at Princeton SPIA | prev: @Carnegie Endowment for International Peace @uchicago
Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social Lawyer, author, EFF's first hire, Godwin's Law creator (he/him). Retweeting!=endorsing. I tell jokes here, mostly. My opinions here don't necessarily represent any employer or any client. You may have known me as @sfmnemonic on Twitter.
Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Vet. Ex NSC/White House Staff.
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Danny Weitzner @djweitzner.bsky.social MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Founder, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative
Privacy, Cybersecurity, Free Speech, Surveillance, Computer Science & Law
https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/daniel-weitzner/
Peter H. Hellmonds @phellmon.bsky.social International Public Affairs Professional, Speaker, Moderater, Writer, Father, Cat Owner
David Young @daedyo.bsky.social Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Engineer, Policy Wonk, Techie, Gadget Freak, ATIS VP, ex-Verizon, Boater and all-around Nice Guy!
🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social 🇺🇦Ukrainian blogger.. 🪖Military analytics and weapons.Geopolitics.. Monitoring of global conflict zones ||🇺🇦~🇷🇺||🇮🇱~🇮🇷||🇹🇼~🇨🇳||🇵🇰~🇮🇳||Ukraine will win
Paul Schwartz @paulschwartz.bsky.social Law professor at UC Berkeley and a Co-Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. International Expert in #Privacy & Security Law 🌐 paulschwartz.net
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com
Jerry Levine @jerrylevine.com Really Awesome Lawyer. Head Law-Talkin' Guy and Chief Evangelist at a really neat technology company.
Law, Tech, LegalTech, Privacy, Democracy, Opinions, Food, Miscellany.
Cheerfully irreverent, usually hungry, but fundamentally kind. Ⓥ
Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
Brent J. Arnold @cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social (He/Him) Trial & appellate lawyer / data breach coach/counsel, Toronto. Litigating commercial/tech/cyber/privacy/AI/Web3 disputes. Chair, Canadian Internet Society. Director, The Advocates' Society. I keep a file on you. https://www.capstanlegal.ca/
Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social Law things, robots, space, privacy || habitual misAInthrope || feministing || she/her ||
(Profile pic from community art-making project in #YQG graffiti alley)
Kristen Eichensehr @keichensehr.bsky.social Law professor. Editor @justsecurity.org. Working on foreign relations, cybersecurity, and national security.
Christopher Parsons (he/him/his) @christopher-parsons.com Policy wonk. Street photographer. Torontonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Interests: privacy, national security, artificial intelligence, accountability, democratic governance.
Posts are mine, not my employer’s.
https://christopher-parsons.com
Suzie Dunn @suziedunn.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute
Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social Chief Privacy Officer at Instructure. IAPP board member. Posts are my personal views. Dad, immigrant, tech geek. He/him/his. Substack: https://incbetter.substack.com/
Chris🌻 @chris4short.bsky.social International lawyer • PhDing @CambridgeUni.bsky.social re digital evidence & int’l justice • dog enthusiast • iced coffee drinker • Oxford comma fanatic
https://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/staff/christine-carpenter
Julia Hengstler @jhengstler.bsky.social #TeacherEd professor, mom, interested in #privacy #tech #AI & #education
Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff.bsky.social Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota, jeffkosseff.com
Nora Draper @noradraper.bsky.social researcher, teacher, writer
associate professor of media and communication at UNH
privacy, surveillance, media and technology industries
European Commission @ec.europa.eu News and information from the European Commission. Social media and data protection policy: http://europa.eu/!MnfFmT
Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social Philosopher (Yale/Bologna), digital ethics, AI ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology,
http://tinyurl.com/ywku22yr
@culturescout.bsky.social @culturescout.bsky.social Podcaster. Privacy Professional. Political Ponfiticator. Traveller.
Passionate about technology, books, and challenging negative narratives about Africa.
https://linktr.ee/bookandlounge
Brandi Bennett @bbennettesq.bsky.social Privacy and Tech Attorney | I write the things no one reads. Click "Yes" to accept. | www.bennetttechlaw.com
columbia privacy lab @columbiaprivacylab.bsky.social Columbia Privacy Lab (“c/privacy lab” or “cpl”) helps communities collectively advocate for privacy.
Tech Transparency Project @ttp-updates.bsky.social The Tech Transparency Project is a research initiative of Campaign for Accountability that investigates the power, influence, & impact of Big Tech. https://www.techtransparencyproject.org
Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social We fight for human rights in the digital age.
www.digitalrightswatch.org.au
Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck.bsky.social Computer scientist, psychologist, journalist. Professor at UMD
On the dystopia beat- AI, social media, extremism, radicalization, privacy, information warfare, and bad stuff people do on the internet
she/her
Anne Toth @annetoth.bsky.social Tech policy wonk
Bob Sullivan @bobsullivan.bsky.social Independent journalist in consumer / tech issues. Author of 5 books, 15 years at http://MSNBC.com. Now http://BobSullivan.net, podcast host.
Vincent Manancourt @vmanancourt.bsky.social Senior tech reporter at @politico.eu in London. vmanancourt@politico.eu. DM for phone number
Artificial Intelligence Institute @ekaya.bsky.social #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #BigData #DigitalTransformation #DataScience
Amy Miller @amyailaw.bsky.social Reporter covering the contentious intersection of AI and regulation for MLex. An occasional banjo picker. Twitter refugee. Columbia grad.
Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social Writes about A.I. for the Washington Post. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/
Isabel Hahn @izzieh.bsky.social Currently Harvard Law. Previously Member of Cabinet at the European Data Protection Supervisor. Background at noyb and LSE Law too!
NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics @csmapnyu.org We work to strengthen democracy by conducting rigorous research, advancing evidence-based public policy, and training the next generation of scholars.
https://csmapnyu.org/links
Jake Snow @snowjake.bsky.social Tech, privacy, surveillance, ACLU NorCal. On Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@snowjake/. He/him. Views mine.
Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research & Development. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. me@lukaszolejnik.com
lukaszolejnik.com/books
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
techletters.substack.com
Alexandra Reeve Givens @alexreevegivens.bsky.social CEO at Center for Democracy & Technology, fighting to protect people’s rights & our democracy in the digital age.
Proud daughter & Board Member at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.
Adam Bender @adambenderwrites.com I'm an award-winning journalist and author from Philly. I am the deputy managing editor of Privacy Daily, where I report on state privacy laws, both existing and coming down the pike. My last novel was Utopia PR, a dystopian satire.
Massimo Marelli @massimomarelli.bsky.social Head of Data Protection Office @ICRC.org | Fellow ECPC @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Jennifer Ruehr @jennruehr.bsky.social Privacy. Data security. Data protection. @Hintze Law.
Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger @viktorms.bsky.social Info geek - from humans to AI, and everything in between. Author, academic, amateur cook.
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right!
http://www.davidbrin.com
Spaf @spaf.me Spaf is a homunculus of possible extraterrestrial origin, tilting at windmills. Cybersecurity, bad jokes, political outrage, academe, non-sequiturs, entropy. See http://about.me/spaf for more.
Marjory B @marjblu.bsky.social It all begins with science and technology policy...
Wendy M. Grossman @wendyg.bsky.social Freelance writer specializing in computers, freedom, and privacy. New net.wars posting every Friday at https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net. Based London. Folksinger. 2024 CD: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/lasttriphome.htm. Not age-verified here; no DMs.
Privacy Chap @privacychap.bsky.social Security, Defence, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Politics - areas of interest / active in.
Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social Long Time Internet Guy
Carnegie Endowment @carnegieendowment.org The Global Think Tank.
carnegieendowment.org
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
Sam Winter-Levy @samwl.bsky.social Fellow @CarnegieEndow, Technology + International Affairs. Previously poli sci PhD @ Princeton, @ForeignAffairs, @TheEconomist.
Alper Coşkun @iacoskun.bsky.social Senior Fellow @Carnegie Endowment DC
Adjunct Prof. @Georgetown University
Former diplomat @MFA Türkiye
Rosa Balfour @rosabalfour.bsky.social Director of Carnegie Europe, interested in Europe in the World.
The Information Environment Project @ieproject.bsky.social Carnegie’s Information Environment Project is a multi-stakeholder effort to help policymakers understand the information environment.
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social AI governance. Tech. Media. Political economy. Human rights. Director, Center for Journalism & Liberty cjl4news.bsky.social at Open Markets. Fellow at Brookings, CIGI, CDT, MRC. Former CPJ, UNESCO, NYT
Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
W.W.D.D.
Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social Political Scientist (all views are own, not employers’). Visiting Prof @ Columbia SIPA; civ-mil relations, military orgs/manpower, public opinion, foreign policy, militarized policing, democratic theory, intl/natsec law, pol econ
Justin Sherman @jshermcyber.bsky.social Cyber, privacy, tech policy, geopolitics @ Global Cyber Strategies, Georgetown SFS, EPIC, Georgetown Law, Atlantic Council, Lawfare. Views my own. He/him
Book “Navigating Technology and National Security” out Dec. 2025
https://globalcyberstrategies.com
Parth Nobel @ptnobel.bsky.social Mostly replying to cat pictures and occasionally posting about tech policy...
CVXPY Maintainer
he/him
Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social U.S. Senator fighting for the families and future of Massachusetts. Malden Native, Red Sox Fan, Net Neutrality Defender, co-author of the Green New Deal ( he/him )
Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov Senator for Massachusetts. Ranker on Senate Small Business Committee & HELP Primary Health & Retirement Security Subcommittee. Fighting for a Green New Deal.
Kai-Fu Lee @kaifulee.bsky.social #AI expert, CEO 01.ai, Chairman Sinovation Ventures, Author of AI 2041 and NYT Bestseller AI Superpowers
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Anthony Scaramucci @scaramucci.bsky.social https://youtube.com/@restpoliticsus?si=jWe9uSTQSAWtk5dE
Margot Susca @margotsusca.bsky.social Associate Professor of Journalism, Accountability & Democracy
📍American University, Washington, D.C.
📘Author “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy”
📜UMass, Columbia J-School, Florida State
Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social Amanda Katz said this was the cool kids table.
Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social Official Bluesky for the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. Part of New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person
I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/
I also post silly things too.
@alvestrand.bsky.social @alvestrand.bsky.social
S G Dickinson @sgdickinson.bsky.social Internet & digital policy, government use of ICTs, women in IT. I tweet live from relevant meetings.
Mark Welch @markwelch.bsky.social • ex-reporter ex-teacher ex-attorney, he/him
• law, journalism, education, security, privacy, surveillance tech, AI fairness, bias, face recognition, Blue Dot, LFL steward
• Springfield MO <NorCal <NH <MA <WI
• UC Berkeley JD'89; UMass Amherst BA'83
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Kate O'Neill @kateoneill.bsky.social "Tech Humanist." Future-ready strategy. Founder & CEO, KOInsights.com. Host, The Tech Humanist Show (thetechhumanist.com). Thinkers50. CSP. Ex-Netflix. Keynote speaker; 6x author (WHAT MATTERS NEXT); bylines Fast Company, WIRED, et al. Vegan, bi, linguist.
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Thomas Rid @ridt.bsky.social @ridt on X
Christoph Molnar @christophmolnar.bsky.social Author of Interpretable Machine Learning and other books
Newsletter: https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/
Website: https://christophmolnar.com/
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Jaap-Henk Hoepman 🟥 ⬜️ 🟩 ⬛️ @xotoxot.eurosky.social Visiting Professor Karlstad University. Associate professor Radboud University Nijmegen. Privacy Engineering Boffin.
Author of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design", MIT Press, 2021.
Posts in English and Dutch
Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social Former internet celebrity. Former journalist. Current human author and @apiln.bsky.social Supreme Leader. Ally. fizzandnonsense.bsky.social completes me.
Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law.
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social NYT tech reporter
Co-author of Character Limit
Signal: rmac.18
ryan.mac@nytimes.com
rmac18@protonmail.com
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
https://linktr.ee/ryan_mac_