Cameran Ashraf, Ph.D. @camerana.bsky.social #HumanRights @wikimediafoundation.org / Human rights & cyberconflict @ CEU / Co-founder of @accessnow.org / Founder AzadiArchive
"Joy is not made to be a crumb" -Mary Oliver
www.cashraf.com
Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social Humanitarian tech and stuff @Access Now. Also, random shitpoasting
Marta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social Escribo sobre Tecnología y poder | El Pais y Radio Nacional de España | Mis dos últimos libros: 'El enemigo conoce el sistema' 'Contra el Futuro'
Anil Madhavapeddy @anil.recoil.org Professor of Planetary Computing at the University of Cambridge @cst.cam.ac.uk, where I co-lead the @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk and work on computing for global biodiversity and climate change with @conservation.cam.ac.uk.
Homepage at https://anil.recoil.org
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social Labor + Tech | Currently @techequity.bsky.social | Formerly Coworker(.)org, Coworker Solidarity Fund, Change(.)org, International Labor Rights Forum
Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social The digital policy strategist you didn’t know you needed—using terms like 'sovereign data assets' as casually as most would say 'hello'.
Also geopolitics, innovation, industrial policy.
Location: Den Haag 🇳🇱 From: 🇿🇦
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
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.
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
Martin Husovec @hutko.bsky.social
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
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.
michael caster @mcaster.bsky.social Head of Global China Programme @article19.bsky.social. Cofounder/advisor @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social. Other stuff. He/him.
Sacha Haworth @sachalouise.bsky.social Fighting for a better internet @techoversight.bsky.social
FOTI @fotitech.eurosky.social FOTI (Future of Technology Institute) is a European think tank tackling digital markets and tech monopoly. Our goal is simple: tech that truly serves the public. We design market reforms, press for enforcement, and back credible challengers.
Alan Butler @alanindc.bsky.social Privacy dad. DC denizen. Director at epic.org and attorney working on all things privacy, cybersecurity, and digital human rights.
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 |
Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social Professor, Stanford Law School.
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.
Author, The Digital 4th Amendment:
https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
Listen/watch Power User podcast on all platforms!!
Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/taylorlorenz
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/
Farzaneh Bad @farzdusa.bsky.social DigitalMedusa https://digitalmedusa.org/
Netrifying the enemies of the global Internet
Say no to IP and government overreach!
Max Schrems @maxschrems.bsky.social (Luckily not only) Law, Privacy and Politics. #ScheißDaNix 🇦🇹🇪🇺🏳️🌈🇺🇳
Sherif EA @sherif.eurosky.social Tech can be better.
Co-founder & co-lead @eurosky.social
British, Egyptian, with a French connection
Sifa ID https://sifa.id/p/sherif.eurosky.social
Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social the only Australian on the internet.
I am the ABC's national AI reporter
you can find ways to e-meet me here: www.cameronwilson.com.au
Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com Public Policy at DuckDuckGo. Here to post about tech, privacy, and the law. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.joejerome.com
Sebastiaan de With @sdw.bsky.social human interface design
Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com Researcher, Computer Security @ ICSI
Chief Mad Scientist @ Skerry Technologies
Putting the Science in "Mad Science"
Digital, Explainable, and (usually) Adversarial Systems
Looking for employment: CV is here https://skerry-tech.com/cv.html
he/him
BOJΛN_PΞRKOV 🌐🌍 @bojanperkov.bsky.social Digital Policy Coordinator @sharefondacija.bsky.social | Personal posts | Veritas scutum meum est
Lucy Purdon @lucypurdon.bsky.social Responsible tech development, human rights, democracy & gender justice.
https://www.courage-everywhere.com/
https://courageeverywhere.substack.com/
The Coalition for Independent Technology Research @thecoalition.bsky.social Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / 💬 on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Tech Oversight Project @techoversight.bsky.social The Tech Oversight Project is a nonprofit dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by passing comprehensive antitrust, privacy protections, and children's safety legislation.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter: dispatch.techoversight.org
Leevi Saari @leevisaari.eurosky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
People Vs Big Tech @peoplevsbigtech.eurosky.social Algorithm, we’re onto you. Let’s build a better digital world.
👾 Linktree linktr.ee/peoplevsbigtech
📩 Newsletter blog.peoplevsbig.tech
Global Network Initiative @thegni.bsky.social A multistakeholder collaboration working to protect & advance freedom of expression and privacy in the tech sector.
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/
Margarida Silva @margaridasilva.bsky.social I research Big Tech's power and campaign to limit it at @somoamsterdam.bsky.social
Internet Exchange @index.internet.exchangepoint.tech.ap.brid.gy Feminist perspectives on digital justice and tech
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org 2025 Right Livelihood Laureate, Senior Accelerator Fellow at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, and Taiwan's founding Minister of Digital Affairs. https://cyberambassador.tw/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
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
Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info Tech policy, civics, art.
Privacy @ACLU.org · Board @MuckRock.com · Teaching @PrattiSchool.bsky.social
rebeccawilliams.info · rebecca.411 on Signal
Access Now @accessnow.org We defend and extend the digital rights of people and communities at risk 🌎.
Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ✍🏽 • RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code • VIRAL JUSTICE: How We Grow the World We Want • IMAGINATION: A Manifesto 📚www.ruhabenjamin.com
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) challenges the influence of Big Business and corporate lobby groups in EU policy-making.
🐘 @corporateeurope@mstdn.social
🔗 https://corporateeurope.org/en
👉 linktr.ee/corporateeurope
@rashaar.bsky.social @rashaar.bsky.social Palestinian🇵🇸 Independent expert on tech & human rights: Big Tech accountability, AI, surveillance, children’s digital rights. Anti-racist, decolonial approaches. Prev: ED @PeoplevsBigTech.bsky.social; Director @AmnestyTech. Board @FairSqProjects. My views.
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/
David Cabo @dcabo.bsky.social Founder of @civio, promoting Open Data/Government, transparency and data journalism.
Eva Belmonte @belmonte.bsky.social Periodista, en @civio.es. Las cosicas del BOE van en esta otra ventanilla: @elboenuestrodecadadia.es. Aquí, intentando no ser un robot. Al menos no un robot turras. Cowgirl
Ángela Bernardo Álvarez @maberalv.bsky.social 📚🧬 Profesora Ayudante Doctora en @unicomplutense | Implicaciones éticas, legales y sociales de las (bio)tecnologías emergentes | Nullius in verba.
Naiara Bellio @naiablm.bsky.social Journalist with a specialisation and a devoted interest in automated decision-making, AI, and digital rights. ✍️ Interim head of Journalism at AlgorithmWatch 🔍 Tech & human rights researcher: AlgoRace | FairTrials | EuroMed Rights.
David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social @EFF's Senior Counsel, 1st Amdt prof @ USF, ex-SFSU. NOT any of the other David Greenes, like the ex-NPR host, the ex-UGA QB, or the 1 who directed Grease. Posts r mine only, so hands off.
Alexander Hohlfeld @alhohlfeld.bsky.social Digitalisation & Society | Digital Policy | Recommender Systems | Freedom of Speech | 🗣️: 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 | https://linktr.ee/al.hohlfeld
Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social Data journalist at the FT
🇮🇪 in London
Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
paris martineau @paris.nyc investigative journalist @consumerreports.org • tech podcastin’ @twit.tv • previously @ The Information & Wired • @parismartineau on the other site
send tips: paris@cr.org, or securely via Signal (267.797.8655) or Proton (tips@paris.nyc)
👩💻 paris.nyc
AI Accountability Lab @aial.ie Trinity College Dublin’s Artificial Intelligence Accountability Lab (https://aial.ie/) is founded & led by Dr Abeba Birhane. The lab studies AI technologies & their downstream societal impact with the aim of fostering a greater ecology of AI accountability
Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Econ & Head of Research at @ucl-iipp.bksy.social
Rita Wezenbeek @rita-wezenbeek.bsky.social Director Platforms, DG CNECT, European Commission - views are my own.
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
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Liberties.EU @liberties.eu 🗃️ Civil Liberties Union For Europe
⚖️ Defending rights. Promoting freedoms. For all.
✊ Democracy. Rule of law. Free speech.
🛑 Authoritarianism. Data surveillance.
👯♂️ Berlin & Brussels
📲 Quoted by Guardian• Spiegel• Politico
🌐 link.liberties.eu/3146e5
ECNL @ecnl.bsky.social We are the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law, working to empower civil society through legal and policy frameworks that protect civic freedoms.
www.ecnl.org
AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org We ensure that the use of algorithms & AI benefits the many, not just the few!
🇪🇺 We’re the EU/German part
🇨🇭 For Switzerland: @algorithmwatchch.bsky.social
🌐 https://algorithmwatch.org/
Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social 📱Digital criminologist @ #LSE 💃🏻 #poledance performer 🍑 Blogger, award-winning activist 🇮🇹 LDNer (she/her) 🧛🏻♀️ Thinking about Buffy like it’s the Roman Empire. https://bloggeronpole.com/all-my-links/
Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social Sociologist & Computer Scientist
PI: @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social
Research Lead @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
Research Lead @dairinstitute.bsky.social
🌐 milamiceli.com
The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately.
Website: http://dair-institute.org
Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
Luca Belli @1lucabelli.bsky.social Prof at FGV Law School, heading CTS.FGV.br and CyberBRICS.info
Director of CPDP.lat
Personal Views
Guillaume Beaumier @gbeaumier.bsky.social Assistant professor in politics and international studies @ENAP | Postdoc @Georgetown & @McGill | PhD @PAISWarwick @ulaval
Studies new technologies, data, AI & global governance
https://enap.ca/a-propos/bottin/guillaume-beaumier-professeur-adjoint
Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social Journalist with Follow the Money. All things tech, EU, transparency. FOI curious. Find me as "fanta.99" on Signal.
The Sunstorm Foundation @sunstormfoundation.bsky.social The Sunstorm Foundation is a philanthropic tech initiative for democracy in Europe.
Through grant making and capacity development, we supports civil society actors and form ad hoc coalitions to quickly shed light on specific tech threats to democracy.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• https://berjon.com/
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• he/him/Ishmael
• Signal robin.77
Luca @lucab.phd ML Ethics, Tech Policy, Italian food, Typos
European Master in Law, Data and AI (EMILDAI) @emildai-eu.bsky.social Interdisciplinary EMJM degree offered by Dublin City University, Université Avignon, Universidad de León, and Università di Pisa. Funded by EU Erasmus Plus!
Agustin Reyna @arcapde.bsky.social Director General of BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation
Luminate @luminategroup.bsky.social We envision a future where everyone has power to shape society.
luminategroup.com
Ian Brown 👨🏻💻 @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy 💻 policy/regulation researcher (esp. #InfoSec #privacy #ML 🗳 #interoperability #DMA #GDPR).
⛷🚴🏻♂️🥾🗺🏳️🌈🌻
Visiting CyberBRICS Prof. at Centre for […]
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu President of the @ec.europa.eu
Mother of seven. Brussels-born. European by heart. 🇪🇺
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Diego Naranjo @diego.eurosky.social Advisor for non-profits on human rights and technology | EU advocacy trainings | labour rights at heart | photographer by night
Former president of the EMAlumni association and Advisory Board Member World Ethical Data Foundation
www.diegonaranjo.eu
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/
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
Civio @civio.es Vigilamos al poder, cuidamos lo público.
Con periodismo, herramientas y acción.
civio.es
Apúntate a nuestro boletín: https://civio.es/boletin/
European Commission @ec.europa.eu News and information from the European Commission. Social media and data protection policy: http://europa.eu/!MnfFmT
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Kai Zenner @kzenner.bsky.social Head of Office for MEP AxelVoss || AI, Data, Liability, and Better Regulation || EPP Group at European Parliament || Views are my own & RT≠endorsement
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Max Bank @maxbank.bsky.social Anti-Monopoly · Democracy & Transparency · Lobbying in the EU · Big Tech · Trade Policy · NGO @rebalance-now.bsky.social previously at @LobbyControl.bsky.social
Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
Signal: plante.01
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Michael Brennan @michaelbrennan.bsky.social Supporting people and organizations building a more equitable internet. Views expressed are my own. Philadelphia.
Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com Security editor, TechCrunch
Signal: zackwhittaker.1337
My stories: techcrunch.com/author/zack-whittaker
My newsletter/blog: this.weekinsecurity.com
SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social 🔎 Non-profit investigating multinationals.
🎯 Critical, independent, and factual.
🌍 Mission: a world where people & planet > profit!
💻 More info at https://www.somo.nl/
Paris Marx @parismarx.com 💥 PREORDER MY NEW BOOK HYPERSCALE 💥
🎙️ @techwontsave.us
📬 https://disconnect.blog
📖 https://hyperscalebook.com
@deblbrown.bsky.social @deblbrown.bsky.social deputy director for tech & human rights @HRW formerly @apc_news @accessnow