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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Sometimes teach at Emory. The Church Committee Report is out now! My views are not my employers.
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Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social Author of Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare
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I work for Amnesty Tech but I skeet for myself.
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Wafa Ben-Hassine @wafa.bsky.social By becoming overly engrossed in the networks on our screens, we lose sight of the networks within us and within the living beings that surround us.
Chief of Digital Tech and Human Rights Section at UN Human Rights
Geneva-based
Becky Kazansky @pondswimmer.bsky.social scholar of risk & refusal | independent advisor on digital rights, tech & climate justice | postdoc on AIDEMOCRACY at Goldsmiths, University of London | ex research lead at Engine Room | https://beckykazansky.net/about/
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
Mariana Valente @mrnvlnt.bsky.social law prof. @unisg.ch, co-diretora @internetlabbr. a internet ainda me comove
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social Technology and human rights. Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at @witnessorg.bsky.social | Doctoral Researcher @oii.ox.ac.uk
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social Civil Rights & Free Speech Attorney. Disinformation & AI Expert. Nonfiction Author.
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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
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Jillian C. York @jillian.bsky.social Author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism (Verso 2021).
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https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies.
Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware.
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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com Filecoin Foundation, FFDW: ex-EFF, ex-CPJ, ex-NTK
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Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
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Lou Charbonneau @loucharb.bsky.social UN director at @hrw.org. Native Detroiter, now in Queens, NYC. Recovering journalist, ex @reuters.com UN bureau chief. Formerly based in Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Hong Kong, UN HQ. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu PhD. Love to cook. And more…
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