John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social software engineer @archive.org
formerly @ google deepmind
organizer with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
any view you think is expressed by my account should be attributed to me alone
ml.johnpalowitch.com
www.jpalomusic.com
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Relocated to Cork last spring. Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm 🇮🇪
Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social (she/her) digital security for movements with Digital Defense Fund, building a research and community space in the PNW, rural privacy advocate, editor of the Skamania Dispatch, horror weirdo.
Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social @KQEDNews | @NPRNews | Experts: "Formidable Provenance"+"The Queen of Succinct" 
@oakland-observer.bsky.social @oakland-observer.bsky.social 
DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social Pushing back against mass surveillance. Based in Redmond, WA.
Cancel Flock! 🚫
Ban ALPRs! 🚫
Petition: ✅ change.org/deflock-redmond
Learn more: ℹ️ deflock.org
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
@afghanevac.bsky.social @afghanevac.bsky.social 
Marc A. Levin @marclevin.bsky.social Chief Policy Counsel, Council on Criminal Justice. Advancing public safety, individual liberty, and equal justice for all.
Jessica Gillooly @jessicagillooly.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Suffolk University; Sociologist studying the 911 system
#goblue
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Berkeleyside @berkeleyside.org Award-winning nonprofit local news provider in Berkeley, California. Powered by Cityside Journalism Initiative.
Purge Palantir @purgepalantir.bsky.social Join us to fight against the tech corporation fueling ICE disappearances, raids and the growing surveillance state at PurgePalantir.com. 🫡
Serious Privacy podcast @seriousprivacy.eu The official BlueSky feed for the Serious Privacy podcast, hosted by dr. K Royal, Paul Breitbarth and Ralph O'Brien. Powered by TrustArc.
https://seriousprivacy.buzzsprout.com/
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Nandini Jammi @nandoodles.checkmyads.org Now: *working on something* / Previously: Co-founder @CheckMyAdsHQ, Your Friendly Neighborhood Watchdog / Co-Founder @slpng_giants
Elected San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju 力儲文 @manorajupd.bsky.social The elected Public Defender of San Francisco, California. Courage. Humanity. Integrity. sfpublicdefender.org
Wendy Fry @wendyfry.bsky.social I’m a journalist specializing in the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration and U.S.-MX foreign relations. I speak English and Spanish. Available for freelance work. Contact: wendyreports@gmail.com. Signal: WendyFry.10.
Mutale Nkonde (she/her) @mutalenkonde.bsky.social Phd Student University of Cambridge I Columbia alum
Studies how AI systems impact Black people
Founded non profit AI for the People
Compassionate I Respectful l Seeks online civility
Proud British - American
#Blacksky
Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
Rob Bonta @robbonta.bsky.social Dad of 3 incredible kids. Lucky husband of “the Better Bonta.” Teller of Dad Jokes. Soccer Dad, fan & (loosely interpreted) player. CA Attorney General.
Paromania @paromitashah.bsky.social Executive Director, Co-Founder, movement lawyer at Just Futures Law. Find us at www.justfutureslaw.org or @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
Pamela Price Unfiltered @pamelapriceunfltrd.bsky.social Exposing injustice. Holding the powerful accountable. Turning awareness into action. No fluff—just truth.
The Worker Agency @theworkeragency.com Our mission is to win campaigns that change people’s lives for the better. TheWorkerAgency.com
Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org
Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) is a next-generation social justice law firm that defends our immigrant communities against injustices in the immigration system.
Support us: immdef.org
Zach Goldman @zachgoldman.bsky.social Political Director, SEIU 1021. Proud Oaklander. Fighting for a better world.
AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov California's Attorney General. Standing up for all Californians and fighting injustices as the People's Attorney. Official Bluesky account.
Plz be patient with me @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
@thegoodfoot.bsky.social @thegoodfoot.bsky.social 
Mission Local @missionlocal.org Independent, nonprofit news for San Francisco.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://missionlocal.org/subscribe-to-the-mission-local-newsletter/
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ACLU of Northern California @aclu-norcal.bsky.social The ACLU fights for your rights ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏻✊🏿
Media inquiries: press@aclunc.org
Website: www.aclunc.org
Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com Special Investigative Correspondent covering climate & movements @texasobserver.org • bernd@texasobserver.org • Signal: Candice.49
Preorder my new book:
“Blood, Soil & Oil” @haymarketbooks.org
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2860-blood-soil-and-oil
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Nabihah @nabihah.bsky.social Full time hater and attorney
Chicago, Views mine, She/her
Coalition for Police Accountability @oakcopoversight.bsky.social Oaklanders (CA) working for police accountability, transparency, and constitutional policing.
Mario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
IAPP @iapp.bsky.social The professional home for privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility globally.
Natalie Orenstein @natalieorenstein.bsky.social Oaklandside reporter covering city hall and housing. East Bay born 'n' bred. DMs are off the record - would love to chat with ya.
Privacy x GarWu @garwuprivacypublications.com 👯♀️ Lauren and Alea 🦸♀️
👩💻 Privacy attorneys 👩⚖️
📚 Turning our love for privacy and security into #kidlit, #picturebooks and resources 📚💙🍎👩🔬
Thoughts are ours, not legal advice
SCBWI Member | 12x12 PB
Brendon Woods @brendonwoodspd.bsky.social First Black Chief Public Defender of Alameda County. Committed to clients, community and holistic defense. #EndMassIncarceration #CareNotCages #ClientsFirst
Naomi Brockwell @naomibrockwell.bsky.social Founder of ludlowinstitute.org
Dance like no one’s watching. Encrypt like everyone is.
Priv/Acc
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
support my work: citationneeded.news/signup
links: mollywhite.net/linktree
💗💜💙
Jeff McDonald @byjeffmcdonald.bsky.social Equal opportunity antagonist and senior apothecary at The San Diego Union-Tribune
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center @the-ilrc.bsky.social The ILRC is a national nonprofit resource center that provides legal trainings, educational materials, and advocacy to advance immigrant rights
🔗 zaap.bio/ilrc
📍California | Texas | Washington, D.C.
evil maid @lenazun.bsky.social not exactly the voice of reason. scaffolding @eff. filosofía zen-troamericana. escribiendo en cartasalabismo.com
Police Files @policefiles.org No Memory Holes • No Blue Wall of Silence
A growing public database tracking law enforcement violence and corruption throughout California.
www.policefiles.org
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social journalist / co-founder @404media.co
signal: sam.404 (sensitive comms)
sam@404media.co (everything else)
complain about the paywall, catch a block
Movement Law Lab @movementlawlab.bsky.social Bringing the power of lawyers to social movements.
Ashley Gorski @ashgorski.bsky.social Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project. Views are my own.
John - Plunk Fdn Executive Director @privacyevangelist.bsky.social Privacy is a human right, who's with me?
More formal stuff on LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/privacy-evangelist/
Nonprofit I run: https://www.plunkfoundation.org/
ICE Out of CA coalition @iceoutofca.bsky.social #ICEoutofCA coalition organizes & advocates to protect our immigrant community from detention and deportation. Join us!
iceoutofca.org
Max Carter-Oberstone @maxmco.bsky.social Appellate Litigator
Jackie Singh @hackingbutlegal.bsky.social Investigative Journalist at Hacking, but Legal. Threat Researcher & Security Consultant. Secured @JoeBiden 2020. Cofounder, Kinexis.AI. Takes here, receipts on my Substack.
x.com/hackingbutlegal
hackingbutlegal.com
Mike Katz-Lacabe @mlacabe.bsky.social Director of Research at Oakland Privacy focused on law enforcement surveillance technologies (ALPR, StingRay, etc) and public records requests. Parent. Spouse. Card-carrying Antifa member. Posts are just me.
Amy Keller @amyekeller.bsky.social #ConsumerProtection and #Privacy attorney. Fan of dogs and democracy. Go Blue! Nazis and fascists are bad. Posts are my own personal views and opinions.
Shaanan Cohney @shaananc.bsky.social Computer Security, Privacy, and Public Policy. Deputy Head of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne. Former Fellow for Sen. Ron Wyden.
Likes teaching. Likes research. Likes Singing.
https://cohney.info
Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social Personal account. Surveillance tech & AI reporting in Portland, OR at RedtailMedia.org. Creator of AITrustControl.com podcast. 25 yrs as a journo reporting on data use, AI, etc. Music nerd, forest walker, raptor watcher NY Mets fan. KEEPIN THAT PMA.
Elizabeth Renieris @hackylawyer.bsky.social Author, BEYOND DATA (MIT Press); law & policy expert focused on #AI #XR #emergingtech; fellow @ Oxford, Stanford, Harvard; frequent contrarian; hackylawyer.com
Catherine Crump @catherinecrump.bsky.social Constitutional lawyer | Berkeley Law prof
Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social Sociology Professor at Stanford
Emory Roane @emoryro.bsky.social Dad, privacy advocate, Assoc. Director @ Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Also: Forever GM, friend of dogs, once called an “Anti-advertising extremist”, trying to push back against the cyberpunk dystopia by posting as rarely as possible.
Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by passing comprehensive antitrust, privacy protections, and children's safety legislation.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter: dispatch.techoversight.org
Anne Toth @annetoth.bsky.social Tech policy wonk
Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social We fight for human rights in the digital age.
www.digitalrightswatch.org.au 
Rebecca Herold @rebeccaherold.bsky.social The Privacy Professor(R)| Privacy&Security Brainiacs(R) SaaS Svcs|Infosec/Privacy/IT Engineer|Entrepreneur|Consulting|Expert witness|Writer|privacysecuritybrainiacs.com
IA res; KC Chiefs & IN Fever fan; love animals, hiking, castles, music, art, history
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)
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. Ⓥ
roseability @roseability.bsky.social
Collective Liberation. Free Palestine. ACAB. Oakland. Scotland.
Atheist Jewish Anti-Zionist Anti-Fascist Anti-Capitalist
fueled by dad jokes, dark humor & dark chocolate.
#AskMeAboutMyCats
Art by Laura Iverson
Chris Ferreira @chrisdferreira.bsky.social East Bay All Day, Community & Economic Development, Aeris Insight, EBALDC Board Member, former FHLBSF, CDFIs, #girldad
Multi-em-dash-ate @starchy.org Currently: covered in cat hair and running shoes, doing tech ops at EFF.
Previously: stardust, stars
Extremely not a professional account. Tikkun olam motherfucker
Roselyn Romero @roselynr.bsky.social Pronounced ROSE-lin, not RAWZ-lin. Award-winning journalist covering public safety for The Oaklandside. She/her. DMs are off the record.
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk Researches Propaganda & IW; Visiting Prof @notredame.bsky.social; Fellow @ Bard; Associate @ Cambridge; Owner Maven of Persuasion; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕 https://emma-briant.co.uk signal: Emmalbriant.44
Hector Dominguez @hdoma.bsky.social Cybernetics, permaculture, technologist, griot
Jackie Lu @jackielu.bsky.social Advancing legibility and transparency for data, sensors and AI in urban tech. Leading Helpful Places (https://helpfulplaces.com) + stewarding DTPR (DTPR.io). Formerly built new nervous systems out of tech and data. at Mozilla | Sidewalk Labs | NYC Parks.
Privacy International @privacyinternational.org For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power.
https://privacyinternational.org
Jed Bracy @jedbracy.bsky.social IAPP Editorial Director
Host of The Privacy Advisor Podcast
https://iapp.org/news/privacy-advisor-podcast/
My opinions here, not the IAPP’s.
Peter Hense 🔔🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @peterhense.bsky.social #NAFOfella | Litigator | data, tech, AI | co-host RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation | AI Act Compact: https://shop.ruw.de/AI-Act-Compact/978-3-8005-1960-6 | Passionate about politics, history, animal protection | Loves Rome & The Simpsons | Threema: YTN9VR2P
Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Shea Swauger @sheaswauger.bsky.social Senior Policy Analyst at @futureofprivacy, PhD student researching school shootings. www.sheaswauger.com
K Royal, the ❤️ of Privacy @heartofprivacy.bsky.social Privacy • Cyber Law • Lawyer • Advisor • Professor • Author • Speaker • Serious Privacy Co-host
(My views really are my own and nothing I say here should ever be taken as legal advice) But it's not just privacy - sugar, shoes, and shopping!
MoFo Privacy @mofoprivacy.bsky.social Morrison Foerster's renowned global Data, Cyber + Privacy practice. https://www.mofo.com/capabilities/privacy-data-security
Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH] @hyphyrepublic.bsky.social I'm @hyphy_republic on Twitter, aka The Oakland Observer, an Oakland journalist. Newsletter @ https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/ :One time contributions to the OO instead of subscription https://oakland-observer.ghost.io/#/portal/support
Kate Morrissey, Journalist @bgirledukate.bsky.social Journalist covering the immigration beat at the San Diego-Tijuana border writing Beyond the Border newsletter on Substack. Co-founder of Daylight San Diego. Articles in Capital & Main, Voice of San Diego, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Los Angeles Times...
Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social I cover DHS and immigration policy for the New York Times
LA Times, BuzzFeed News, SF Chronicle alum
Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social I write investigative and narrative stories about immigration and criminal justice for Reuters. 2x Pulitzer Prize winner. Please send story tips!
📍San Francisco
kristina.cooke@reuters.com
Signal: kristinacooke.08
No Tech For Apartheid @notechforapartheid.bsky.social Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' Project Nimbus contract w/ Israel & tech militarism at large.
📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com
💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ solidarity.notechforapartheid.com/join
🌐 notechforapartheid.com
Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social State Representative out of Missoula, Montana. Fighting for housing, health care, & human rights.
Wife of @erininthemorning.com
Bi🏳️🌈 Trans🏳️⚧️ she/her♀️
Zack Haber @zackhaber.bsky.social I report on the Bay Area, mostly Richmond and Vallejo these days for Richmondside and The Vallejo Sun. I post about Oakland too and might editorialize a bit about the town. I live there. Feel free to reach out: Zack.Haber@gmail.com
Accountable Tech @accountabletech.bsky.social Doing what our name says, holding Big Tech accountable. #ReinInBigTech
accountabletech.org
Caron @caroncreighton.bsky.social Journalist & filmmaker in Oakland. I mostly report on homelessness and displacement, & I talk on the radio sometimes. Currently making a movie: https://www.woodstreetmovie.com/
Val Ilchenko @vilchenko.bsky.social General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer at TrustArc. Will probably talk about privacy, security, legal, tech, and sometimes coffee.
Reg Leichty @regleichty.bsky.social Education and privacy lawyer, founding partner of Foresight Law + Policy, PLLC, Washington, D.C. 
Indybay @indybay.org San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center • Anti-Oppression Anti-Capitalist Open Publishing Since 2000
Make media • Make trouble!
Publish: indybay.org/publish
Get in touch: indybay.org/contact
www.indybay.org
Maria Helen Murphy @mariamurphy.bsky.social Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law.
🐦@maria_h_murphy
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.
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