Big Brother Watch @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social Defending civil liberties and protecting privacy.
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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
Steven Murdoch @steven.murdoch.is Professor of Security Engineering; Head of UCL Information Security Research Group @sec.cs.ucl.ac.uk; Director Open Rights Group. 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@sjmurdoch 🐦 @sjmurdoch 🌍 https://murdoch.is/
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
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Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
Chris Stokel-Walker @stokel.bsky.social Tech journalist and author, who increasingly also talks on TV and radio. Interested in the sparks that happen when the online and offline worlds collide
@stokel on the other place. Buy my book: How AI Ate the World!
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
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.
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Zoe Kleinman @zsk.bsky.social BBC Technology Editor 🤖
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io […]
[bridged from https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org We fight for digital rights. Join us.
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michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social Law and technology academic. Posts about copyright law, internet regulation, AI, llamas, pandas, and cats. 🇨🇷 🇬🇧
https://www.technollama.co.uk/
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.
Bill Thompson @billt.bsky.social Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
Gaia Marcus @gaiamarcus.bsky.social - Director @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social:ensuring data & AI work for ppl & society
- Stint in government - led #NationalDataStrategy; roles in Cabinet Office, ONS & MHCLG
- Charity roles inc. Samaritans Trustee; staff @ The RSA, Centrepoint, ParkinsonsUK
Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI.
Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets.
www.jenitennison.com
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social https://danmcquillan.org/
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
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things. 
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻 @ianbrown.tech 💻 regulation (🔑 #privacy 🗳)
⛷🚴🏻♂️🥾🗺 🇮🇨🇪🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🌻
Visiting Prof @fgvoficial.bsky.social 👨🏫
Formerly DCMS Principal Scientific Officer/Prof. Information Security & Privacy @oii.ox.ac.uk
Tech News @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
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
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford.
electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford
LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC.
lover of robot music 🤖⚡️
https://hip.cat/emax
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
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
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof/senior postdoc criminology VUB/substitute lecturer KULeuven - research: digital & green criminology, surveillance, AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
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/
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
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
Robert Bateman @robertjbateman.bsky.social • I post about privacy, data protection, security, AI • Regular updates on big tech shenanigans • Views absolutely represent those of my employer (me) • Consultancy and training services •
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Natasha @riptari.bsky.social Journalist+, climber-in-training, asks awkward questions ~tips: natasha[at]techcrunch[dot]com
Catalina Goanta @cgoanta.bsky.social Associate prof in private law & tech (Utrecht University) & PI ERC Research Stg HUMANads '22-'27 @goanta@someone.elses.computer
Martin Husovec @hutko.bsky.social 
João Pedro Quintais @jpquintais.bsky.social Associate Professor, Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam. Researching on Platform Regulation, intermediary liability, content moderation and intellectual property (mostly copyright).
w: https://www.ivir.nl/profile/quintais/
Jessica Shurson @jessicashurson.bsky.social Law academic @ University of Sussex. Research interests: cybercrime and criminal law; digital surveillance, investigations & evidence; privacy law. 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧. (Views are my own.)
issuesincybercrimelaw.substack.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2775-2136
Ben Collier @susansegfault.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
Graham Smith @cyberleagle.bsky.social IT and internet lawyer. Sceptical tech enthusiast. Reposts and links are not endorsements. All views my own. No posts are legal advice. www.cyberleagle.com
Prof. Marion Oswald, MBE @marion-infolaw.bsky.social Professor of Law, Northumbria University. Interested in law, technology, #AI policing, law enforcement & national security (& art, detective fiction). Chair, West Midlands PCC/Police data ethics committee, Hon FRSS #academicsky
peterkwells @peterkwells.com BlackpoolFC, books, tech, people, policy & delivery, realist. Hopes to make stuff work for everyone.
https://peterkwells.com
Emerald de Leeuw-Goggin 🇮🇪🇳🇱🇺🇸 @emeralddeleeuw.bsky.social 🤖Global Expert in Privacy & AI Governance | Shaping executive strategies for privacy and responsible AI and 💖 advancing women in AI governance.
All views expressed here are my own - when I share, it is not an endorsement
Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Professor of Data Ethics and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Principal Investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute. Founder of the Governance of Emerging Technologies research programme.
Paddy Leerssen @pjleerssen.bsky.social Postdoc @ivir_uva | DSA Observatory | social media law 
Laura James @laurajames.eurosky.social Adaptable, empathetic engineering leader
👩🏻💻 VP Research at F-Secure
☕️ director at CoFarm.co & nowplaythis.net & Green Web Foundation
Past: doteveryone.org.uk, makespace.org, okfn.org + more ➡️ lbj.org.uk
X:LaurieJ
More on @Laura@social.coop or LBJ.org.uk
Andrew Murray @andrewdmurray.bsky.social Professor of Information Technology Law at LSE. Dean-Elect of @lselaw.bsky.social (from September 2025)
Academic Member of the Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute.
“The Alexa of Cyberlaw” (2022 Student Evaluation)
Dr Lachlan Urquhart @mooseabyte.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Technology Law & HCI, U of Edinburgh. Director of Regulation + Design Lab; Co-Director CRISP + SCRIPT. Tech Law, HCI, IoT, AI, Design, Privacy, Cybersec, Surveillance, Sustainability, Metal, Guitars, Sci Fi, photography, campervans.
Antonio Aloisi @aloisi.bsky.social law professor @ielawschool + fellow @nyulaw
platforms, AI, futures of work, social Europe
“Your Boss Is an Algorithm” – Hart 2022
http://lawtomation.ie.edu
Dr. Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA - each one teach one @velocitygravity.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Work, UoStirling.
Researching AI/internet/digital media & expectations/expertise. Hype+Metaphors.
Friends: BRAID UK, UoE STIS, AI Ethics & Society, Data Civics, The New Real.
AE: Technology Analysis and Strategic Management.
It/ve/vem👾
Bernard Keenan @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Lecturer, UCL Laws. Law, theory, tech.
Interception: from postal systems to global networks (MIT 2025)
Igor Szpotakowski @iszpotakowski.bsky.social Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in IP Law at University of Leeds. Passionate about copyright, Chinese law, tech law, AI, and digitalisation. With a sip of Roman Law 📚 - https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/2704/igor-szpotakowski
CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, University of Glasgow
Colin Gavaghan @digitalfutures.bsky.social Professor at Bristol Digital Futures Institute/UoB Law School.
Tech law geek. Genre fic nerd. Proud Scot-kiwi-Bristolian. 
Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social Microblog supporting Internet and Society and Controversies in the Data Society courses, Science Technology and Innovation Studies, University of Edinburgh
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
Burkhard Schafer @burkhardschafer.bsky.social Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe
Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Cristina Caffarra @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social Economist, antitrust expert, econ/tech policy commentator, keynote speaker, convener CEPR Competition RPN, EscapeForward podcaster and conference host/ producer, Hon.Prof. UCL, DG Grow Fellow 2026, founder/lead EuroStack Industry Initiative
Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social Research Fellow in AI, Information & News, Reuters Institute, Oxford University | Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute | Junior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College | AI, (mis)info, news, democracy | My views etc…
https://www.felixsimon.net/
Francesca Palmiotto @francescapalmiotto.bsky.social AI, Human Rights and Criminal Justice
Assistant Professor at @ielawschool
Editor and co-founder @The_Digi_Con
Sharing resources and abstract art
Dr Elif Biber @elifbiber.bsky.social Law and Technology Scholar🌻🇪🇺 at the University of Luxembourg & Academic Visitor at the Oxford institute for Ethics in AI #AILaw #HumanRights #EULaw #RuleofLaw PhD in Law (summa cum laude) @ScuolaSantAnna Head of Digital Rights @The_Digi_Con
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford https://tinyurl.com/3rkmbmsf
Humboldt Professor of Technology & Regulation, Hasso Plattner Institute https://tinyurl.com/47rkrt6c
Governance of Emerging Technologies
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
noyb – European Center for Digital Rights @noyb.eu About us 👉 http://noyb.eu
Become a member 👉 http://noyb.eu/support
#MakePrivacyReality #InvestInPrivacy
Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social Tech law @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/j-cobbe/83662
Maya Indira Ganesh @mayameme.bsky.social Feminist SocSci-Humanities scholar-practitioner in tech & AI. Associate Director & Senior Researcher: www.lcfi.ac.uk
VLR-MAA-DEL-BOM-BLR-BER-CBG
Outside cat; but more of a dog person really.
bodyofwork.in
Gloria González Fuster @ggf.bsky.social Research Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Director of the Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Research Group. Data. Privacy. Protection.
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
John Naughton @jjn1.bsky.social Academic,newspaper columnist (Observer), blogger (johnnaughton.substack.com), photographer, optimist (despite current state of world), author, co-founder of Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy (mctd.ac.uk) at Cambridge
dr corinne cath (ccs) is in London @ccs.bsky.social Anthropologist of internet industry & clouds | Head of Global Team Digital @article19.bsky.social | @mctd.bsky.social Univ of Cambridge & Univ of Ams critical infra lab | coffee, climbing, mãe, she/they | https://corinnecath.com/messy-human/
Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social Prof in Media and Communication // Editor-In-Chief New Media &Society // Director MA Digital Media and Society // Wonderful team @pgmt.bsky.social // platform governance, AI hype, discourse
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/person/christian-katzenbach/
Paul Nemitz @paulnemitz.bsky.social Lawyer, Policy Developer, Speaker on #Democracy, #Law & #Technology, #AI #AIAct, #DSA & #GDPR and how all this works together. Co- Author of „The Human Imperative- Power, Freedom and Democracy in the age of #ArtificialIntelligence“.
Robert Gorwa @gorwa.ca Researching global tech policy at the WZB Berlin. 📕: The Politics of Platform Regulation - How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation (out now OA 🔓) https://academic.oup.com/book/56385
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.
Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp.bsky.social Founder & ED AlgorithmWatch. Board member RSF Germany.
Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social Professor of Human-Data Interaction, University of Edinburgh; Codirector @braiduk.bsky.social; & https://www.responsiblenlp.org Researches AI/HCI
Alison Powell @abpowell.bsky.social Assoc Prof at LSE | Teaches MSc in Data & Society | Feminist research praxis | AI policy making | Undoing Optimization: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300223804/
Current work on health, care and environment from NHS tech to Rewilding the Night
Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Books: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023) "Canadian Privacy Law" (2026). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy
Kris Shrishak @krisshrishak.bsky.social Public interest technologist & chocolate lover | Privacy, PETs, algorithmic decision making, films, books, more | https://krisshrishak.de | KrisShrishak@eupolicy.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
Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Prof Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Lab. Home page: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield