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
Laura Edelson @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Co-Director, C4D
Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social Pets, politics, and Pete. New to the Blue. BOOP!🐈
#TeamPete #BookSky #ScriptSky
Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social everybody deserves good security.
https://alecmuffett.com/about
Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social Law professor focusing on constitutional law, especially free speech, the separation of powers, and government secrecy. Friend to all dogs and cats. Champion procrastinator.
peteriffic_2k @smittyutah.bsky.social Burkean on most things
Mapping AI @mappingai.bsky.social We are building a comprehensive map of the individuals and groups with the potential to shape AI policy in the United States.
Finley Williams @finleywilliams.bsky.social https://finley-williams.com
Coordinator at the Princeton Summer Journalism Program. Former editorial fellow at Boston Review and editorial intern at The American Prospect. Cornell alumna.
Gabby Miller @gabbymiller.bsky.social Tech reporter @ Politico
Covering AI + Congress
Mark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social Encouraging better tech, and resisting Big Tech.
- Host, Techtonic on WFMU: https://techtonic.fm
- Founder/host, Gel conference: http://gelconference.com
- Tech criticism: https://creativegood.com/blog
- Newsletter: https://creativegood.com/newsletter
Nicole Ozer @nicoleozer.bsky.social EFF Executive Director | All about rights, technology & democracy | Trailblazer in public interest tech law | 2025 Technology & Human Rights Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School | Former ACLU |
Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social 6’7” California State Senator representing San Francisco 🏳️🌈 ✡️
Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓
Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙
Vote Nov. 3, 2026 🗳️
Get involved ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/scottwiener
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Tampa Bay Times @tampabaytimes.bsky.social Florida's largest newspaper with 14 Pulitzer Prizes. Support our local journalism at tampabay.com
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Jak @jaksays.bsky.social Brit in Australia with family in the US.
Cat hostage. Anti-assholes. Does not speak kindly of right wing nut jobs. Knows a lot about tech. Old enough to not care about your sheetposting, will block trolls, sov citizens and Zionists on sight. :)
@opentodebate.bsky.social @opentodebate.bsky.social
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the idea that consumers should have the right to choose, keep, and use their preferred browser as the default on Windows without that choice being undermined.
Pfeifer Sports (Dan Pfeifer) @pfeifersports.bsky.social Twenty-five-plus year sports media pro, talking #packers, #mubb and #brewers among other things. pfeifersports.wixsite.com/home
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Packerville U.S.A. @packervilleusa.bsky.social Celebrating over 100 years of Green Bay Packers football
Brooke Tanner @brooketanner.bsky.social Tech and digital policy at the Brookings Institution (usual disclaimer that posted content reflects my own views)
Calder Briggs @calderbriggs.bsky.social Writing about tech, power, and the systems that shape public discourse.
Longform analysis on Substack: https://shillnet.substack.com/
Hilary J. Allen @profhilaryallen.bsky.social Law professor at the American University Washington College of Law (but all views expressed here are my own); author of Fintech Dystopia and Driverless Finance; mythbusting crypto, AI, and other fintech
Internet serial: fintechdystopia.com
DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com Independent online privacy company with browser, search engine, and optional AI.
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
internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social 21st century digital attorney. cybersecurity & data counsel, privacy & compliance, FOSS, sometimes litigation; probably not your lawyer.
~~☆~~
Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social former Staten Islander
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Victoria Song @vicmsong.bsky.social Senior reviewer and author of the Optimizer newsletter for The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, the wellness wild west, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun.
Signal: @vicmsong.14
Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.
Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social investigative reporter covering immigration, labor and more for @propublica.org
signal: nicolefoy.27
David Sullivan @davidsullivan.bsky.social Tech policy, human rights, trust & safety. Raised in Brooklyn, based in Boulder. @david_msullivan elsewhere. Posts auto delete.
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/A1Y8CYx9TUtTxirjHuY_ibg6kbSF7BF5inQ7c-04zOPv#did:plc:sqd3wsj7e6w6do6i26nn62r2
Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social
Dean Jackson @dwj.eurosky.social Unreal Bird. Subscribe to my newsletter here: https://deans-list.ghost.io/
Principal, Public Circle Research & Consulting
Contributing Editor, Tech Policy Press
Senior Fellow, UPitt CTRL
Views my own with apologies to the reader
Rebecca MacKinnon @rebecca-mackinnon.bsky.social Working for a better internet that enables everyone, everywhere, to thrive. Posting as myself, not representing anyone else’s views.
Shira Feldman @writingwithrobots.bsky.social Writer, reader, human. Interested observer of all things AI/writing.
Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social "One of the great journalists of our time at a venerable institution for investigative journalism... Joe Patrice at Above the Law" -- Judge William Pryor (Somehow I think he might’ve not meant that earnestly)
Nikolas Guggenberger @nikenberger.bsky.social Asst Prof, University of Houston Law Center
tante @tante.cc De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org
(Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
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
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Ricky Sutton @rickysutton.bsky.social Father, Innovator, Author of Future Media, Speaker.
More than 4,000 executives from the world's top 700 news, tech and marketing brands follow my newsletter.
Future Media reports on the collision of Big Tech and media and the emergence of the AI era.
Ryan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com Applied scientist trying to make the internet a little better. PhD. Trust & safety, networks, fingerstyle guitar. I use my hair to express myself. They/he
Dave Lee @davelee.me US technology columnist, Bloomberg Opinion. Based in New York. Previously FT and BBC. Watching Cambridge United from afar. dlee1285@bloomberg.net / Signal: davelee.01 / www.davelee.me
Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social EU digital policy nerd | data protection & privacy | competition | platform & media regulation | identity | cybersecurity
Focus: consent-or-pay & (messaging) interoperability
https://gateklons.substack.com/
🐘 @gateklons@eupolicy.social
🐦 @gateklons
asad ramzanali @asad09.bsky.social AI & tech policy, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator. My own views.
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
ID4 in Real Time @1996id4.bsky.social Skeeting the sights, sounds, & news from 1996's historic alien attack & subsequent global (read: American) military response in real time. #IndependenceDay #ID4
Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social Negotiator. Conflict Advisor.
Former Harvard Negotiation Project
Former Kennedy School & NUS Lecturer
Managing Director, Sea-Change Partners
Co-author, "Negotiating Hostage Crises with the New Terrorists"
Photographer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithfitz
Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social Mostly energy, supply chains, and transportation. Toto and Art Deco enthusiast. Still a MENA student at heart. Views my own.
Onward, Rocinante!
David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social feminist "law" professor, reproductive rights scholar/activist, avid cyclist, husband, dad, indie rock enthusiast, Vermont lover, Phillies fan, he/him
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social Cofounder of https://indicator.media, your essential guide to understanding and investigating digital deception. Sign up for free! Investigative journalist and OSINT trainer.
https://craigsilverman.ca
Farzaneh Bad @farzdusa.bsky.social DigitalMedusa https://digitalmedusa.org/
Netrifying the enemies of the global Internet
Say no to IP and government overreach!
Hannah Murphy @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social Financial Times tech correspondent writing on social media - X, Meta, TikTok, Telegram - plus some AI, cyber and misinformation.
🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸. DMs open.
Tips to: 📨hannah.murphy@ft.com
Signal: mshannahmurphy.04
Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.
Andy Rosic @andy.social Skeptical founder building products with AI that sometimes work.
hi.andy.social
Open Home Foundation @openhomefoundation.org The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one.
Zach Wahls @zachwahls.bsky.social Husband. Father. State Senator. Sixth-Generation Iowan. Candidate for U.S. Senate.
Sumit Sharma @sumitecon.bsky.social Personal a/c - 'tweets' are my own, 'retweets' & likes are not endorsements.
Bad HIPPA Takes 🦛💨 @badhippa.bsky.social PhD in HIPPA
Mostly HIPPA-compliant subtweets and snark.
They/them.
Tweets are not legal advice/not employer's views.
@staceygray.bsky.social @staceygray.bsky.social
Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social https://competitionwave.blogspot.com/ (daily reading list and more)
Oakland Privacy @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social A citizens’ coalition that works regionally to defend the right to privacy and enhance public transparency and oversight regarding the use of surveillance techniques and equipment.
oaklandprivacy.org
#privacy #surveillance #civilrights
Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.
Lucas Osborne @lucastosborne.bsky.social Industrial Policy, Money, Monopolies, Public Utilities, Tech Platforms, PhD @UCBerkeley, JD @VanderbiltLaw, MPP @TheHellerSchool- S Spencer Weber Waller @sweberwaller.bsky.social John Paul Stevens Chair in Competition Law
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Antitrust, Consumer Protection, running, jazz, Tottenham Spurs, travel.
Khushita Vasant @khushita.bsky.social antitrust correspondent @mlexclusive | former @WSJ, @DowJones | vasant(AT)mlex(DOT)com | RT≠endorsement | Signal: vasant.10
Alex Mahadevan @alexmahadevan.com Director of MediaWise and faculty doing AI, media literacy and OSINT stuff @poynterinstitute.bsky.social | alexmahadevan.com
Melanie Ensign @melanie-ensign.bsky.social I 💜 #infosec and #privacy teams! I built @DiscernibleInc.bsky.social to teach them how to influence business leaders & decision makers.
Subscribe to join IR comms drills every Wednesday: DiscernibleInc.com/drills
#Miami #Mexico
Tina Nguyen @tinanguyen.bsky.social Senior Reporter at The Verge and author of Regulator, covering Big Tech vs Big Government. Formerly Puck/Politico/Vanity Fair. Wrote a book called THE MAGA DIARIES. Send your juiciest/most apocalyptic goss to tina@theverge.com or @tina_nguyen.19 on signal.
T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social In-House Counsel @ BigTech. Ex-"Computers Guy," then decade litigating 1A in NC+TX. Servant to two cats (and a dog and a wife). Armchair Philanthropist.
(@greg_doucette on ExTwitter)
David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social Contributor @washingtonmonthly.com. Bylines @theprospect & elsewhere. Elected DNC Member from CA. Progressive reformist. Dad of two. I run a qualitative research firm.
Zach Seward @zachseward.com 🆕 Just got here—hi!
👨💻 AI initiatives at @nytimes.com
🔗 zachseward.com
Red Sox @redsox.com The official account of the Boston Red Sox. Sometimes we wear green.
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
Executive Director, Future of Tech Institute & Tech@Meliore. Hon. Prof. UCL. Fellow, Open Markets. Ex Foxglove, Reprieve.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Brian Boland @btb.bsky.social Former tech exec turned advocate for economic justice. Anti-Milton Friedman, pro-progressive economics à la Stiglitz, Raworth, and Graeber. Passionate about justice, rethinking capital's role, and aligning finances with values.
Josh Fairfield @joshfairfield.bsky.social Legal scholar, tech law nerd, reluctant futurist
AI, crypto, digital property & community
Prof @ W&L | Author | Testifies sometimes | Consultant
Book 3 on the way. Author alignment: Lawful Thoughtful
https://joshfairfield.com/
Brandi in Occupied Minnesota @bbennettesq.bsky.social Privacy and Tech Attorney | I write the things no one reads. Click "Yes" to accept.
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social Democratic political strategist, analyst, commentator. Hopium purveyor. More than 30 years in the fight.
My primary political home is on Substack.
Join me there too - https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/
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. Ⓥ
Bennet Kelley @bennet.bsky.social Internet lawyer, award-winning political columnist, and sports and history blogger. Native Rhode Islander, DC Refugee living the dream in SoCal with dog Gidget.
Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social A leading research institution in the heart of Boston. Follow us to hear about all things BU! 📧: social@bu.edu | Community Guidelines: http://spr.ly/6003HciLX
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Flavia Ouyang @flaviaouyang.bsky.social Software Engineer
Blog: www.flaviaouyang.com/blog
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com Video maker
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io Senior Director of Technology at @propublica.org.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A.
Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood trustee. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy.
Signal: 352.222.2706
https://timburkelegalfund.org
Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social Earthseed | Abolition | Anti-capitalism
Read my writing, if you want 👇🏻
www.jphilll.com
Internet Education Foundation Projects @iefprojects.bsky.social For 25 years building the most prominent platforms for technology policy engagement: Congressional App Challenge, State of the Net Conference, Congressional Internet Caucus Academy, Internet Law & Policy Foundry, Decentralized Future Council.
Ben Balter @ben.balter.com Helping distributed teams work in the open & default to async | Author of Open & Async | Ex-GitHub Director, Presidential Innovation Fellow, attorney
PolitiTakes @deepsouthwriter.bsky.social Deep South writer, politics, news, and other things.
Watching the world burn. 🔥