Information Commissioner @infocommission.bsky.social We exist to empower you through information.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social I think and know about open government and freedom of information. All posts in a personal capacity, RTs ≠ endorsement.
Born at 323 ppm
The Secret DPO @secret-dpo.bsky.social The stories and experiences of a Data Protection Officer (DPO) trying to ensure that plumbers can’t fix your plumbing (not a lawyer).
Unchecked UK @unchecked-uk.bsky.social We make the case for common-sense protections that improve people’s lives and enable UK businesses to thrive.
Fotis Vergis @fotisvergis.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., Law Gonville & Caius, Cambridge | Labour Law | EU law | MovingLabourCollective | Disgruntled romantic; once Stakhanov & Mancunian; Toumbiot beyond Toumba
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Judicial Studies Institute @justinbrno.bsky.social Judicial Studies Institute (JUSTIN) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University
https://justin.law.muni.cz/en
LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social Evidence-based social science commentary on UK politics and policy. Part of
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Karen Mc Cullagh @karenmccullagh.bsky.social Associate Prof, UEA Law School.
My research specialism is information rights: encompassing Privacy, Data protection and Freedom of Information
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/karen-mc-cullagh
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK's leading research centre on constitutional change, covering parliament, government, democracy, elections and more.
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Maria Helen Murphy @mariamurphy.bsky.social Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law.
🐦@maria_h_murphy
Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
FPF.org
Anna Buchta #SlavaUkraini🇪🇺🇵🇱🇧🇪 @buchtan.bsky.social bEUrocrat | immigrant | mother | views my own
IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) @ipso.co.uk For accountable journalism: We protect the public and freedom of expression by upholding high editorial standards.
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Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
InfoLawCentre@IALS @infolawcentre.bsky.social Information Law & Policy Centre at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk
Jan Philipp Albrecht @janalbrecht.bsky.social Vorstand | president Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Vorher | before: MdEP | MEP 🌻🇪🇺 & Minister in Schleswig-Holstein ⚡️🐗🌾♻️🐝💻
Hier privat | private views
Lord Norton of Louth @lordnortonlouth.bsky.social Professor of Government, University of Hull. Devoted to the study of the Constitution, Parliament, and the Conservative Party.
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social 🇬🇧-> 🇨🇦 -> 🇭🇰 economic migrant / assoc prof @CUHKLaw
/ law, constitutions, privacy, education, tech, politics, football, music, food, design, &c / https://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/people/prof-stuart-hargreaves/
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.
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.
Tristan Henderson @tnhh.org Computer scientist (ish) at St Andrews. Insane in the membrane. Except when running. Running photos at @tnhh.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy
Nataša Pirc Musar @predsednica-slo.si Predsednica Republike Slovenije, President of the Republic of Slovenia- P Pierre Far @pierrefar.bsky.social I work for a better internet. Relevant buzzwords: Product, privacy, UX, data, AI. Generally snarky and sarcastic.
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Elizabeth Farries @elizabethfarries.bsky.social Director, UCD Digital Policy Centre @ucddigitalpolicy.bsky.social, https://digitalpolicy.ie/
Coordinator, @forsee-research.bsky.social
Director, Digital Policy Education https://digitalpolicy.ie/education/
Asst Prof, ICS @ucdischool.bsky.social
Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social Scientist. Dir. of Usable Security & Privacy at the International Computer Science Institute (icsi.berkeley.edu). Founder, AppCensus (appcensus.io). All opinions are those of his employer(s), and not his own.
https://www.guanotronic.com/~serge/
Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk The Bennett Institute for Public Policy has expanded to become the Bennett School of Public Policy. Please follow us on our new handle: @BennettSchool.cam.ac.uk
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
The Heritage Alliance @heritagealliance.bsky.social The voice of the heritage movement | Uniting 200+ heritage organisations
Humza Yousaf @humzayousaf.bsky.social Father, husband, former First Minister of Scotland 🏴
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Pollok- B Brian Leiter @brianleiter.bsky.social I teach and write about general jurisprudence, legal and political realism, metaethics, free speech, religious toleration, academic freedom, Nietzsche, Marx and other topics at the University of Chicago. Homepage: https://brianleiter.net/
Holli Sargeant @hollisargeant.bsky.social Research Fellow in Law & AI, St John's College, University of Cambridge
Focusing on legal frameworks for algorithmic decision-making & role of AI in justice systems.
hollisargeant.github.io
HRAPF @hrapfuganda.bsky.social HRAPF aims to achieve respect for the rights of marginalised persons in Uganda through advocacy, legal aid service provision and capacity enhancement- J Juha Tuovinen @juhatuovinen.bsky.social Constitutional lawyer at Durham Law School
Institute of Commonwealth Studies @icws-sas.bsky.social Leading impactful research, education and collaboration on challenges to strengthen democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the modern Commonwealth and globally | Part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. https://linktr.ee/icws
BRISMES @brismes.bsky.social BRISMES brings together teachers, researchers, students, diplomats, journalists and others who deal professionally with the Middle East.
John Wunderlich @privacycdn.bsky.social Privacy geek.
Téa Braun @teabraun.bsky.social Human Rights Law. Chief Executive of @HumanDignityTrust.bsky.social
www.humandignitytrust.org
Kate Astall @kate-astall.bsky.social Senior Lecturer
Researcher - media law/ press regulation / press harm / criminal justice
New Europeans UK @neweuropeansuk.bsky.social Helping EU citizens secure their right in the UK and play a full and active part in their communities.
www.neweuropeans.uk
ICJP @icjpalestine.com icjpalestine.com
Ambassador Martin Selmayr @martinselmayr.bsky.social European at heart🇪🇺♥️. EU Ambassador @UN (FAO, WFP, IFAD) & Holy See, Order of Malta in Rome. Professor EU law @Universities Passau, Saarbrücken & Vienna. European Commission Secretary-General 2018/2019, former Chief of Staff President Jean-Claude Juncker.
PET Symposium @pet-symposium.bsky.social Official account of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium and the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Next event: PETS 2026
Website: petsymposium.org/
Mastodon: @PET_Symposium@infosec
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social Your eye on the ground. Independent Middle East and North Africa news. https://middleeasteye.net
Unofficial account. Automated post via RSS.
Maintained by @danni.id
SimonFraser @simonfraser00.bsky.social Chair of Chatham House. Founding partner of Flint Global. Former Perm Sec at UK Foreign Office and Business Department.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social Official account of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. We campaign for peace & justice for Palestinians in support of international law & human rights & against all racism. RT≠endorsement
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher.bsky.social Founder & Editor, @pathfounders.bsky.social | Formerly @TechCrunch | mike@pathfounders.com | Signal: mikebutcher.04 | Pathfounders.com | linkedin.com/in/mikebutcher | Speaker / Moderator | Founder: TheEuropas, Techfugees, TechVets | (MBE)
@harrietclugston.bsky.social @harrietclugston.bsky.social Editor, Liberty Investigates
Multi award-winning/losing journalist┃ Paul Foot Award shortlistee┃Formerly NationalWorld.com ┃Edinburgh based
HarrietC@libertyinvestigates.org.uk
Alfred Nyaga @alfred-nyaga.bsky.social Lawyer | Founder, Digital Ethics Hub | Host, Digital Ethics Podcast | Joint LLM in IT and Data Law, LLM, LLB, Diploma in Law | Digital Rights & AI Regulation
Charlie Whelton @cwhelton.bsky.social Human rights type, doing policy & campaigns at Liberty.
Pete Hudson 🇬🇧🇨🇵🇪🇺🏴🇮🇪🇳🇱🏴🇮🇳 #FBPE #BanX #UKPR #UK_JoinEU @twopenneth.bsky.social All lives matter. True democracy 👍🏼, BSc Eng. Garden designer. Left of centre. Art dabbler. Cats👍🏼
blocking criteria:
- Insults/abuse
- Performative idiocy
- False accusations
- Pointless conflict
- Racism, sexism or other prejudices
Nicolas Jondet @njondet.bsky.social IP/IT Law Academic - University of Edinburgh Law School
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
Tim Gollins @timgollins.bsky.social Director SCUA at Vanderbilt University. Posts etc. my own - Loves #Kites #MorrisDancing #Archives #DigitalPreservation #Digipres #Libraries #Photography
LinkedIn uk.linkedin.com/in/timgollins
Flikr https://flickr.com/photos/111510787@N06
NADPO @nadpo.bsky.social Official account of The National Association of Data Protection and Freedom of Information Officers http://nadpo.co.uk
Gavin Phillipson @prof-phillipson.bsky.social Law Professor, Bristol University, all opinions own: free speech, public protest, privacy, ECHR, counter-terror law; platform regulation; UK constitution
Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social ‘Notes on Now’ every month in Byline Times, Co-founder openDemocracy Led Charter 88 from 1988-2005. Iron Britannia; The Lure of Greatness; Taking Control! Etc Online articles in Authory.
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Kathryn Eccles @kathryneccles.bsky.social Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute and Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
Interested in Digital Culture, Heritage, and Museums.
David Barnard-Wills @dbarnardwills.bsky.social Political scientist working in emerging tech regulation. Privacy, ethical AI and responsible innovation. PhD. AIGP. Manchester UK
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Lorena Jaume-Palasí @lopalasi.bsky.social Founder The Ethical Tech Society | AlgorithmWatch | IGF Academy I @lopalasi@dair-community.social on Mastodon
Damian Tambini @damiantam.bsky.social Author of ‘Media Freedom’. Tech, journalism, media reform.
Daniel Westman @danielwestman.bsky.social Lawyer specialising in information technology and media law. Independent adviser and researcher. Stockholm, Sweden.
Mohammad Nayyeri @mhnayyeri.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at Brunel University of London; PhD from King's College London; interested in human rights law & philosophy, legal theory, EU law, int'l law, public law; views mine
Website: https://www.brunel.ac.uk/people/mohammad-nayyeri
Abhilash Nair @abhicm.bsky.social Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor @University of Exeter. Academic lawyer #internet law #childsafety, #dataprivacy, pornography. Editor-in-Chief http://eljt.org, Chair http://bileta.org.
Views are my own.
Bill Dutton @whdutton.bsky.social Oxford Martin Fellow at the Global Centre for Cybersecurity Research and Director of the Portulans Institute, Washington DC. Author of The Fifth Estate: The Power Shift of the Digital Age.
Jon Penney @penney.bsky.social Law Prof/Social Scientist | Osgoode Hall Law School | PhD Oxford (OII / Balliol) | Fellow/Affiliate: CitizenLab, BKCHarvard, CCRInitiative | twitter.com/@jon_penney | mastodon.social/@penney | jonpenney.com | Law, technology, and human rights
Joris van Hoboken @jvh.bsky.social (he/him) antifascist, law prof in Amsterdam (IViR); platform regulation, law and digital infrastructure, quantum technology, fundamental rights.
@ivir-uva.bsky.social
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law
Markus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social EU & International Sustainable Development Lawyer; Professor of European & International Law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social Deputy Proctor @cam.ac.uk Fellow @eulegalstudies.bsky.social @hugheshall.bsky.social @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @cisdl.bsky.social.
Future of Privacy Forum @futureofprivacy.bsky.social A catalyst for privacy leadership & scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging tech. Get updates: fpf.org/subscribe
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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Trinity Hall, Cambridge @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social Celebrating academic excellence and community. A college of the University of Cambridge.
Follow for news, research and events.
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.
@jowicz.bsky.social @jowicz.bsky.social
Jeremias Adams-Prassl @jeremiasprassl.bsky.social Law @Oxford, currently visiting @Melbourne. Interested in algorithmic management, the future of work, and tech regulation.
Water enthusiast
Jessica Simor KC @jmpsimor.bsky.social Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.
Julian Nowag @kaleidoscomp.bsky.social Assoc Prof in #EULaw focus #CompetitionLaw @LawFaculty
@lunduniversity, @OxfordCCLP's managing editor of @OUPlaw’s JAE
– on #law, #antitrust, #EULaw
Labour Movement for Europe @labour4europe.bsky.social The pro-EU society ⭐️ affiliated to the Labour Party 🌹 Standing for Labour, Standing for Europe 🇪🇺
Be part of our movement here:
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Jaani @jaani.bsky.social London barrister specialising in intellectual property and technology litigation. Keen violinist, photographer, operagoer. All views my own.
Vincent Toubiana @vtoubiana.bsky.social Head of LINC (CNIL's Digital Innovation Lab), see our work there : https://linc.cnil.fr
Former CNNum/Arcep/FTC(intern)/Bell-Labs/NYU.
DM Open
Aysem Diker @aysemv.bsky.social Academic @ Goldsmiths Law specialising in EU competition and IT Law, in particular interested in regulation of platforms and other emerging technologies . #eu #antitrust
Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com I have always depended on the kindness of otters.
Assistant prof of law @ CUNEF, working on regulatory theory, digital governance & EU law
Skeets about work, hobbies (Warhammer 40k, sci-fi more generally, football), life, and bad puns.
Vincenzo Tiani @vincenzotiani.bsky.social 💼 #privacy #AI in Brussels 🗣️ Speaker 🎓PhD Candidate VUB 👨🏫 Adj. Prof. EDHEC Business School ✍️ WIRED Italia, Il Sole 24 ore, La Repubblica
linktr.ee/vincenzotiani
Center for Data Innovation @datainnovation.org The Center for Data Innovation conducts independent research and formulates public policies to enable data-driven innovation in the public and private sector.
🔗datainnovation.org
Copyright Alliance @copyrightalliance.org Nonprofit championing artists' and creators' rights under copyright, which fuel creativity, choice, and innovation. copyrightalliance.org
Ezgi Eren @ezgieren.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher at KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law
lover of cats, puzzles and podcasts, not a great writer of descriptions
Prof. Dinusha Mendis @lawtechgadget.bsky.social Academic. Professor of Intellectual Property (IP) Law; Director @cippm
Posts about #IP ⚖️ #copyright ©️ and new #tech 🤖 in particular AI, immersive environments, deepfakes
CDT Europe @cdteu.org Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe 🇪🇺 Advancing EU law and tech policy with a focus on democracy and human rights.
Part of @cdt.org's Global team.
https://cdt.org/eu/
Adam Satariano @satariano.bsky.social NYT tech reporter mainly covering Europe and other stuff happening outside the U.S.
Alexandre Dulaunoy @adulau.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy Enjoy when humans are using machines in unexpected ways. I break stuff and I do stuff.
The other side is at @a (photography, art and free software at large) […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://infosec.exchange/@adulau, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social Work at the FT as director of global public policy and platform strategy. Before that I was at the Guardian doing public policy for over a decade. I'm from Yorkshire, via Hull, London, and now in the middle of England (Lichfield)
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Viltė Kristina Dessers @vkdessers.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven
Fiona Costello @fionacostello.bsky.social ☘️ Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham.
Migration/ EU / Brexit researcher
Fellow @ St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Massimo Marelli @massimomarelli.bsky.social Head of Data Protection Office @ICRC.org | Fellow ECPC @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social