@rabble.ca @rabble.ca
Policy Options / Options politiques @policyoptions.irpp.org Policy Options - the digital magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (@irpp.org)// Le magazine numérique de l'Institut de recherche en politiques publiques (IRPP)
Pivot Legal Society @pivotlegalsociety.bsky.social Using the law as a tool, we challenge unjust legislation, policies & practices that undermine human rights, intensify poverty, and perpetuate stigma.
www.pivotlegal.org
Roya Pakzad @royapak.bsky.social Technology and Human Rights researcher and advocate.
👩🏻💻 Founder of Taraaz: taraazresearch.org
👩🏻💻 Builder-in-Residence at @mozilla.ai
Ex: @mozilla.org, @uvadatascience, @stanfordcddrl, AMD
✍🏼 writing https://royapakzad.substack.com/
Dean Beeby @deanbeeby.bsky.social Independent Canadian author and journalist, specialist in freedom-of-information laws, Ottawa-based. deanbeeby.ca | deanbeeby.substack.com. Co-author of forthcoming 24 Sussex: The Past & Future of Canada's Official Residence (Oct 2026)
NL OIPC @oipcnl.bsky.social Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Heather Martin @heliza13.bsky.social copyright officer, open advocate, creator and consumer of copyrighted works
Revue de droit d’Ottawa | Ottawa Law Review @rdo-olr.bsky.social
Colleen M. Flood @colleenmflood.bsky.social Dean, Queen's Law. Lover of health care law and policy and public law. Research lately is focused on the governance and adoption of of AI into health care, higher education and legal systems.
Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario @ipcontario.bsky.social Protecting the privacy and access to information rights of Ontarians
https://www.ipc.on.ca/en
CDTS | CLTS • uOttawa @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social Centre de recherche en droit, #technologie et société | Centre for Law, #Technology and Society • @uOttawa.bsky.social
uOttawa Innovation @uottawa-innovation.bsky.social Promouvoir l’excellence en recherche et innovation à l’Université d’Ottawa | Highlighting research and innovation excellence at the University of Ottawa
Tesh W Dagne @tdagne.bsky.social Associate Professor and Ontario Research Chair//School of Public Policy and Administration// Osgood Hall Law School//
York University. #AI #intellectualproperty
Teresa Scassa @teresascassa.bsky.social Law professor specializing in tech law (privacy, AI, data). Gardener.
Michele Austin @micheleaustin.bsky.social Telecommunications and broadcasting policy by day | 🇨🇦⛸️ 💙 🧶 🐈⬛
Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Fellow @reubencollege.bsky.social. Book: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy
Internet Society @internetsociety.org
Daniel Gervais @danielgervais.bsky.social Law professor at Vandy. Sci-fi fan and writer. I teach IP and AI.
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Robert Diab @robertdiab.bsky.social AI and digital freedoms in Canada:
https://robertdiab.substack.com
OpenMedia @openmedia.org Fighting for your digital privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right.
Learn more and take action at www.openmedia.org.
Sean Flynn @profseanflynn.bsky.social Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) @ AU Law, interested in intellectual property, trade, and global social justice.
Kyle K Courtney @kylekcourtney.bsky.social Lawyer, librarian, @FairUseWeek organizer, @SocialLaw, © savvy, author, armchair philosopher, gentleman farmer, soi disant scholar, @eBookStudyGroup, and bowtie enthusiast.
Internet Archive Canada 🍁 @internetarchiveca.bsky.social Internet Archive Canada is a non-profit digital library that works with universities, and memory institutions throughout Canada. https://internetarchivecanada.org
https://linktr.ee/internetarchivecanada
Fred von Lohmann @flohmann.bsky.social copyright lawyer, OpenAI, Xoogler, ex-EFF.
Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.
Jennifer Ditchburn @jenditchburn.bsky.social President & CEO, Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Ottawa/Montreal
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social U.Miami Lawprof. Techie. Teach AI, AdLaw, https://tinyurl.com/concrisis, Jurisprudence & Privacy. EIC of Jotwell.com. Home@ https://law.tm. Survivor of many medical things that should have killed me but didn't. Remains to be seen if I'm stronger.
E. Richard Gold @richardgold.bsky.social I teach & research Intellectual Property, innovation, Open Science Partnerships, universities /J'enseigne et recherche propriété intellectuelle, innovation, partenariats science ouverte, universités. Views are my own/Les avis sont les miens.
Hannah J Draper @hjdraper8.bsky.social Internet in the public interest |
Director PayneRoutledge.com | 🇵🇸
Kathryn May @kathrynamay.bsky.social Lawyer & policy wonk working in digital health. JD via @uoft.bsky.social, LL.M (privacy/cyber) via @osgoodenews.bsky.social. CIPP/C. ISTJ. News junkie. Word nerd.
Colin Bennett @colinjbennett.bsky.social Privacy and surveillance author, researcher, teacher, advocate and policy wonk (not necessarily in that order) living in Victoria BC.
www.colinbennett.ca
Adam Dodek @adodek.bsky.social Professor, teachers, scholar, constitutional aficionado, Blue Jays fan, baseball lover, history buff, bibliophile
Meera Nair @meeranair.bsky.social Formerly @FairDuty at the other place.
Places where I scribble down thoughts:
https://fairduty.wordpress.com/
https://june231985.wordpress.com/
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
ATTAP @attap.bsky.social i'm Bruce Edward Spector. Technologist, OG internet entrepreneur, investor. I founded WebCal the first Personal Information Manager for the web (acquired by Yahoo!) My current project, ATTAP (All Things to All People®), can be found at https://attap.ai
Sam Greenwood @samgreenwood.ca I'm Sam Greenwood, Founding Editor of @thetechnewssource.com. Star Trek/Wars fan, Leafs fan.
Matthew Marinett @mmarinett.bsky.social Prof of Law & Business at Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. Law & Tech, IP, privacy, video games, nerd stuff
Georgia Evans @georgia-evans32.bsky.social GR consultant @ Earnscliffe Strategies | board director & policy committee chair @caninternetsociety.bsky.social | enjoys singing, running & cycling
Steve Anderson @steveanderson.bsky.social Founder of New/Mode: @newmode.bsky.social
Learn more at: https://www.newmode.net
Founder and previous ED of OpenMedia. @openmedia.org
@jasonjkee.bsky.social @jasonjkee.bsky.social
Kyle Kirkup @kylekirkup.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. Constitutional law, criminal law, gender and sexuality law.
Charles McIvor @charlesemcivor.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Science, technology and innovation policy wonk. Currently focused on mission-oriented innovation policy at the OECD. I run a newsletter in my free time on innovation policy:
https://innovationinthenews.substack.com/
Emily Laidlaw @emilylaidlaw.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Working at the intersection of all things tech law and human rights - online safety, freedom of expression, privacy, platforms, AI, security.
Arvind Singh @arvindsingh55.bsky.social Over 10+ years in Library, Information Management and Privacy roles. Master's in Library and Information Sciences and Master's in Education. Interested in social justice, the environment and philosophy of life. Advocate for Evidence-Based Politics.
@gspanglett.bsky.social @gspanglett.bsky.social
The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social 📺 The Rundown with @jeyantvo.bsky.social on @wearetvo.bsky.social
More: https://my.linkpod.site/therundown
Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com Generous with Likes ❤️ 📸 🖊️ 📿 🙏 He/him 日本語 🙆♂️ #COYS #SurreyBC 🇨🇦
https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/
#PublicInterestTechnologist #buddhism #books #photography #japan
Also @protocolsforpublishers.com & @dwebyvr.org
PfP @kawaiirailroads.millie-may.net
Jeff Scott @jeffscott.bsky.social chatgpt is my greglet
Rosel Kim @jroselkim.bsky.social she / her | books & snacks & things I’m watching | sometimes law | views are my own
Alan Macek @amacek.bsky.social Intellectual Property Lawyer, patent agent at DLA Piper (Canada) LLP. IPPractice.ca website for my blog. Views are my own.
dragosr @dragostech.bsky.social Autonomous Carbon Based LLM with 42 years of tuning on Information Attack and Defense.
Host of CanSecWest, and PacSec.
Security audits, code, IR, LLM, red team consulting.
Specialize in Firmware, and RF.
VA7MOV
Tash Saunders @natashaell.bsky.social Interested in science, medicine, language, neurodiversity, Canadian telecom & competition.
Paul Blizzard @paulblizzard.bsky.social IP Lawyer, J.D., P.Eng. US/CA Patent Agent. Opinions=my own. He/Him/His.
Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social Science broadcaster
Author of The Reality Bubble
New documentary: Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
Trustee: WWF International, Landscape Alliance
Bram Abramson @bramabramson.bsky.social Mastodon: @bram@mstdn.ca
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bramabramson
Adam @adamsenft.bsky.social Research Ops Manager @ Citizen Lab
Suzie Dunn @suziedunn.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute
Eve Gaumond @evegaumond.bsky.social Scholar - Law & tech
Chercheuse - Droit & techno
Chel @chelc.bsky.social Living for the future
🤖🚗👩🏻💻
alterante:// @agf.bsky.social Advancing data privacy for businesses, institutions, and individuals. #privacybydesign www.alterante.com www.hivebot.co github.com/sync-different
Bertie @bertiebellnger.bsky.social Apple Lover (Company) Duolingo Lover 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
CanLII @canlii.bsky.social Welcome to the Canadian Legal Information Institute, a non-profit organization founded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. We provide efficient and open online access to judicial decisions, legislative documents, and more. https://www.canlii.org
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
John Wunderlich @privacycdn.bsky.social Privacy geek.
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
AI Cases Bot @ai.bots.law Updates on AI legal cases. Hosted by @free.law. Sponsored by @waterandmusic.bsky.social.
Also at @ai_cases@mastodon.social and @ai_cases_bot.
Details: https://bots.law/little-cases/ai-cases-bot/
Andrea Mills @andreamills.bsky.social Executive Director of Internet Archive Canada 🇨🇦
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Karl Bode @karlbode.com Seattle-based writer focused on tech, media, politics, and consumer rights.
Subscribe to my newsletter The Fine Print*: karlbode.com
Mike De Souza @mikedesouza.bsky.social Quebec-Atlantic bureau chief at The Canadian Press. Journaliste d'enquête, Habs fan, Montrealer. mikedesouza.com
Kady O'Malley @kadyo.bsky.social Chronicler of parliamentary antics, procedural shenanigans and associated other critical elements of Canadian democracy. Writer at iPolitics.ca, political musings on CBC and elsewhere.
Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net
Kyle Duggan @kduggan.bsky.social Reporter for The Canadian Press in Ottawa. Writing about defence, trade and more. I turn coffee into words.
David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social Prof at Cornell studying how human-AI dialogues can correct inaccurate beliefs, why people share falsehoods, and ways to reduce political polarization and promote cooperation. Computational social science + cognitive psychology.
https://www.DaveRand.org/
Catherine Middleton @catmiddleton.bsky.social Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Mark Goldberg @markgoldberg.bsky.social Come for the tidbits about telecom policy; stay for words of wisdom from a grumpy old grandfather
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com Canada's national newspaper, but on Bluesky
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
Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social Globe and Mail reporter in Ottawa bureau
stevenchase.ca
@stevenchase on Twitter
- C Craig Forcese @cforcese.bsky.social Law professor uOttawa, https://tinyurl.com/yhskkc3a. Personal views only. Focus on international law, natsec law and Cdn public law. Substack at https://substack.com/@craigforcese.
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/
Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief 338Canada丨Rédacteur en chef Qc125丨Chroniqueur @ L'actualité, The Walrus & Politico Canada丨Co-host The Numbers podcast丨Prof astronomy & astrophysics丨Occasional cat pictures🤍丨📍Montréal
David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com Editor, McClelland & Stewart. Author. Writer. General purpose factotum. Lego enthusiast. PhD in political science, just in case.
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
Mike Palmedo @mikepalmedo.bsky.social IP stuff, economics, music.
Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social William H. Neukom Professor, Stanford Law School. Partner, Lex Lumina LLP. I teach and write in IP, antitrust, internet, and video game law
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2026
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society.
Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society
Professor of Communication, Cornell
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Lila Bailey @lilabailey.bsky.social Public interest copyright laywer, karaoke diva, book reader, dog mom. Here for libraries, museums, books, music, art, comedy, copyright, memes, animals, fandoms, and people being kind.
I work at the Internet Archive, but posts here are my own.
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg.bsky.social Now: News Literacy Project. Then: WSJ tech columnist, AllThingsD, Recode, D & Code conferences, Verge, CTRL-WALT-DELETE. Opinions are purely personal.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.