Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
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Hayden Field @haydenfield.bsky.social Senior AI reporter at The Verge.
6 years covering the AI industry's power dynamics, societal implications & the AI arms race. Previously: CNBC, Morning Brew, Protocol, etc.
DM me off the record on Signal: haydenfield.11
Hands Off NYC @handsoffnyc.bsky.social We are 250+ unions, faith leaders, and community groups standing together in nonviolent resistance to protect NYC.
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More trainings and community events coming soon. Stay tuned.
Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
forever philly, longtime nyc
member @transjournalists.org
TIPS: lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
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Book: thecon.ai
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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social Senior Editor, Tech & Policy, The Verge
Nancy Scola @nancyscola.bsky.social Journalist on tech & policy & politics; contributing writer at POLITICO Magazine and Washingtonian. D.C.-based, Jersey-made.
Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
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
Erie Meyer @erie.bsky.social Former Chief Technologist at cfpb
Junki Watanabe @junkiwatanabe.bsky.social Asahi Shimbun reporter 朝日新聞記者。bluesky活性化のため、全文読める記事をできるだけ多く投稿していきたいと思います。
Paromania @paromitashah.bsky.social Executive Director, Co-Founder, movement lawyer at Just Futures Law. Find us at www.justfutureslaw.org or @justfutureslaw.bsky.social
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director, Nonprofit organization
Tom McBrien @tommcbrien.bsky.social Online privacy, speech, and consumer-rights-focused attorney @EPICprivacy
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
Kara Williams @kara-williams.bsky.social Attorney @epic.org specializing in state AI and privacy legislation and focusing on centering humans in tech policy
R.J. Cross @rj-x.bsky.social Writer/researcher/advocate @ the Public Interest Research Group. Usually: tech/privacy/AI. Sometimes: fiction/poems/satire/birds. Currently learning about: burrowing owls. Cool new lit project coming soon. Kansan at heart.
https://rjcross.org/
Zach Campbell @notzachcampbell.bsky.social senior researcher, tech & human rights @hrw.org
recovering journalist: bylines @theintercept.com @theguardian.com @bloomberg.com @atavist.com
RightsCon @rightscon.org 💫The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age
📆 Taipei and online, Feb 24-27, 2025
Nadine Farid Johnson @nadinefj.bsky.social Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University | Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Center for International Policy. Opinions mine.
David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social californian. human rights, free expression, tech, international law. uc irvine. fulbright. article 19. prior: UN special rapporteur, GNI chair.
edu coalition (dm for details)
go bears!
Plz be patient with me @bmeson.lucyparsonslabs.com A researcher who writes about #FOIA, policing and technology. I help run @lucyparsonslabs.com & give advice to @ddosecrets.com & @MuckRock.com
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
kabbas @kabbas.bsky.social EJW Fellow @epic.org. Trying to escape the surveillance monolith.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Stephanie LaTour @stephanielatour.bsky.social 32 years as a federal labor lawyer, now retired. Aghast at obscene inequality, which the current plutocracy is only going to worsen. CREDIT: "So what did you think would happen?" was made by Brooklyn artist and carpenter Shawn Gargagliano.
Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
TeachPrivacy @teachprivacy.bsky.social Founded by Prof. @Daniel-Solove.bsky.social, TeachPrivacy provides privacy & data security training. Engaging and interactive 150+ topics: AI, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, FERPA, phishing and more. Learn more: teachprivacy.com
Sara Geoghegan @sarageoghegan.bsky.social She/ her
Senior Counsel @EPIC.org
Focused on repro privacy, health privacy, and commercial surveillance. Views are my own
National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org Public interest 501(c)(3) law firm for natsec & info/privacy law. Website https://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org. Charitable tax-exempt donations always welcome; details on website front page. Media email Media@ NationalSecurityLaw.org, others email Kel there
Björn O'Connor-López @keirlamont.bsky.social Data law and policy
I don't rock the boat, but it's always unsteady.
Brennan Center @brennancenter.org We work to build a United States that is democratic, just, and free — for all. Visit BrennanCenter.org.
Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com Since 2018. Going beyond the clickbait headlines to tell the story of a changing, evolving Japan.
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Sunu P. Chandy @sunuchandy.bsky.social Civil rights attorney & poet / author of My Dear Comrades
https://www.sunuchandy.net/
John Davisson @johndavisson.bsky.social ‣ Deputy Director + Director of Enforcement @epic.org
‣ Baltimore native • DC/Ward 5 resident
‣ LEGO • Cycling • O's + Ravens
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
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ZwillGen @zwillgen.com Law for the next generation of technology. Trusted by companies building what's next.
Omer Tene @omertene.bsky.social Privacy! Ok, nothing to see here.
EPIC @epic.org The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) was established in 1994 to secure the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age.
Find us at epic.org.
Paul Ohm @paulohm.bsky.social Lawprof Georgetown / Emacs and org-mode
Caitriona Fitzgerald @caitrionafitz.bsky.social Privacy advocate • Deputy Director at @epic.org • Pronounced "Katrina,” just spelled the Irish way.
Cobun Zweifel-Keegan @cobun.bsky.social Privacy, data protection, AI governance. Translating policy to practice. Some friction is good friction. D.C. policy lawyer by day, Colorado forest creature by night. (he / him)
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.
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Prof. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M., Ph.D. @iajunwa.bsky.social Writer. Professor of Law. Director, A.I. and the Future of Work Program, Author of The Quantified Worker. Order here: https://a.co/d/bfdTUj5 #AI #Ethics #Law
#Chocophile
#Filmophile
#Igbophile
#Francophile (mostly)
#Bibliophile
#musicophile
#Afrofuturist
Alicia Solow-Niederman @aliciasn.bsky.social Associate Prof at GW Law. Privacy, algo accountability, AI governance. Distance runner fueled by ice cream.- P Dr. Joy Buolamwini @poetofcode.bsky.social
Karen Levy @karenlevy.bsky.social Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
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/
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Salomé Viljoen @salome.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Michigan Law || I think about how the law thinks about data || pro science and technology, anti scams
Justin Brookman @justinbrookman.bsky.social tech policy for Consumer Reports
Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech writing Good Technologies: A Practical Primer for Lawyers (coming 2027 @ucpress.bsky.social)
teaching intellectual property, information privacy + technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
making prints, perfumes + poems @ tepski.tech/art
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.
Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice. Posting is mostly rage at fascists, their journalist enablers, and feckless Dems who need to retire. Sometimes I even post about things people call me an expert in. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology
hannahbw.com
Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social Clinical Prof., Cornell Law School. That brown gay law prof who makes ice cream. Speech, tech, clinical legal education, and the legal profession. Not the best but pretty good. Always MI ✋🏾
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Kendra Albert @kendraserra.bsky.social They/them. Public interest tech and media lawyer at albertsellars.law, recovering academic. 💜 Philly, video games, and plants.
More at kendraalbert.com.
Marcia Hofmann @marciahofmann.com Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, US-UK Fulbright.
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Thierry Breton @thierrybreton.bsky.social Entrepreneur. Teacher. Policy Maker 🇫🇷🇪🇺
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
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social A small creature who likes to run around in universities.
Prof. Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard Kennedy School. EFF Board. Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the HLS Library.
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)
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
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
https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com
Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
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
Jay Peters @jaypeters.net Senior Reporter at @theverge.com. Email tips to jay.peters@theverge.com.
Personal website is https://jaypeters.net.
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social SCOTUS podcast (Crooked Media)
Hosted by Leah Litman, Melissa Murray, & Kate Shaw
Produced by Melody Rowell
Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Prof. of Law @nyulaw.bsky.social; Faculty Dir. @bwlcnyu.bsky.social; co-host @strictscrutiny.bsky.social; talking head @ms.now; @NYTimes.com bestselling author. Views mine. RT not endrsmt.
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com My New York Times bestseller: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
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