Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT). Award-winner. Polisci prof. Contrarian. Lover of dogs, family outfit matching, and tinned fish. www.wendyhwong.com
Differential Privacy Papers @dppapers.bsky.social 🤖
new arXiv preprints mentioning "differential privacy" or "differentially private" in the title/abstract
- unrelated quantum/FL papers
+ updates from https://differentialprivacy.org
[Under construction.]
Nicolas Papernot @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social Security and Privacy of Machine Learning at UofT, Vector Institute, and Google 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 Co-Director of Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR. Opinions mine
Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social Pour haïr un autre
D’abord, tu dois en faire un Autre
Elle/She/Her
≠Legal advice
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
(And that includes you.)
🇨🇦 ⚖️ 🌹⚜️🍉 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇺 😷 💉 📚 🏳️⚧️/🏳️🌈 #cdnpoli
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James L Turk @jameslturk.bsky.social Director of the Centre for Free Expression at Toronto Metropolitan University University. Board Member of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group. Writer, Speaker, Policy Analyst.
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
Brent J. Arnold @cyberlawyeryyz.bsky.social (He/Him) Trial & appellate lawyer / data breach coach/counsel, Toronto. Litigating commercial/tech/cyber/privacy/AI/Web3 disputes. Chair, Canadian Internet Society. Director, The Advocates' Society. I keep a file on you. https://www.inq.law/
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC @oipcbc.bsky.social The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC is independent from government and promotes and protects the information and privacy rights of British Columbians. Learn more about our office here: https://www.oipc.bc.ca/about/about-us/ 
evacide @evacide.bsky.social Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employer's
I did a TED talk once
Ansel Halliburton @anseljh.com Law technology & technology law. In-house trademark lawyer. Free Law Project (@free.law) board. Building in #LegalTech since 2006. Making derpy from-scratch robots for fun. @Obsidian.md nerd. DM for Signal.
Sara M. Grimes, PhD @smgrimes.bsky.social Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Daniel Thorp @danielthorp.bsky.social uOttawa '27 Software Engineering
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
Media Ecosystem Observatory @meo-cdmrn.bsky.social The Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) and the Canadian Digital Media Research Network (CDMRN)
Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social Public Knowledge promotes an open internet, accessible communications tools, and balanced copyright laws. Reposts do not necessarily indicate endorsement.
Sign up for our newsletter here: publicknowledge.org/subscribe
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
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.
Alicia Wanless @lageneralista.ca Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social Professor, Political Science, Brock University
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
Michele Austin @micheleaustin.bsky.social Telecommunications and broadcasting policy by day | 🇨🇦⛸️ 💙 🧶 🐈⬛
Kate Robertson @kate-robertson.bsky.social Not that kind of Dr. Lapsed Art Historian, part-time author/critic, full-time film lover. Current work: horror; women cannibals on screen; Australian art 1890-1914. 
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Leah West @leahwest-nsl.bsky.social SJD. Associate Prof at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Sr Fellow @CIGI. Ex Armoured Officer & DOJ Nat Sec lawyer. Write about the law of spies, robots and terrorism. Sanctioned by Russia.
Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Author. Nigellavangelist. Pedant about civic literacy and Star Wars/Trek. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
Ben Fineman @benfineman.bsky.social Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
OpenMedia @openmedia.org Fighting for your digital privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression. High speed Internet is a universal human right.
Learn more and take action at www.openmedia.org.
Sarah A. Sutherland @parallaxinfo.bsky.social Digressions on the world, legal data, and information. Author of “Legal Data and Information in Practice” with Routledge Press. Humour may be attempted.
Principal consultant at https://www.parallaxinformation.com/.
📍 Vancouver and Edinburgh
Argyri Panezi @argyri.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in Digital Information Law and Policy
Asst. Prof. at UNB Law
Law and technology, Copyright and A2K, A2J, Law and AI, Copyright, Privacy, Cybersecurity
Canadian Civil Liberties Association @cancivlib.bsky.social Protecting the rights and freedoms of everyone in Canada since 1964.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/ 
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.
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social Palmer Chair in Law and Public Policy at Dalhousie Law. Formerly @ UCLA and Yale. All things tech and democracy. Dachshund enthusiast.
Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
Jon Penney @penney.bsky.social Law Prof/Social Scientist | Osgoode Hall Law School | PhD Oxford (OII / Balliol) | Fellow/Affiliate: CitizenLab, BKCHarvard, CCRInitiative | twitter.com/@jon_penney | mastodon.social/@penney | jonpenney.com | Law, technology, and human rights
Matt Hatfield 🇨🇦 @matthtfld.bsky.social Executive Director at @openmediaorg.bsky.social, Canada's largest digital rights group. Pro-democracy, everywhere.
Emily Laidlaw @emilylaidlaw.bsky.social Canada Research Chair in cybersecurity law and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. Working at the intersection of all things tech law and human rights - online safety, freedom of expression, privacy, platforms, AI, security. 
Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social U.Miami Lawprof. Techie. Teach AI, AdLaw, https://tinyurl.com/concrisis, Jurisprudence & Privacy. EIC of Jotwell.com. Home@ https://law.tm. Survivor of many medical things that should have killed me but didn't. Remains to be seen if I'm stronger.
Alicia Solow-Niederman @aliciasn.bsky.social Associate Prof at GW Law. Privacy, algo accountability, AI governance. Distance runner fueled by ice cream.
Christopher Parsons (he/him/his) @christopher-parsons.com Policy wonk. Street photographer. Torontonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Interests: privacy, national security, artificial intelligence, accountability, democratic governance.
Posts are mine, not my employer’s.
https://christopher-parsons.com
Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca Tech & human rights lawyer | he/him
Director, Privacy, Surveillance & Technology Program, CCLA (https://ccla.org | @CanCivLib.bsky.social)
Formerly: hrw.org | cippic.ca
Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/ 
The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca We are an academic research unit at the University of Toronto investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.
Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social Professor at Colorado Law. Data privacy, AI, speech.
Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com #Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
Vance Lockton @vancelockton.bsky.social Sr. Tech Policy Advisor at the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. AI, age assurance, digital ID, PETs, extended reality, neurotech -- talk to me about any of them! Or about birds. Would love to see a shoebill stork in the wild one day. (he/him)
Internet Policy Review @policyr.bsky.social Journal for internet studies. Interdisciplinary & open access. Published by @hiigberlin.bsky.social & @cais-research.bsky.social in cooperation with @create-glasgow.bsky.social @cis-cnrs.bsky.social IN3 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social & Skytte Institute UT
Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics).
Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
Taylor Owen @taylorowen.bsky.social Beaverbrook Chair of Media, Ethics & Communication, Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, & Principal Investigator of the Media Ecosystem Observatory, McGill University. Host of the Machines Like Us podcast https://tinyurl.com/9yn836x
CanLII @canlii.bsky.social Welcome to the Canadian Legal Information Institute, a non-profit organization founded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. We provide efficient and open online access to judicial decisions, legislative documents, and more. https://www.canlii.org
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun @whkchun.bsky.social new media theorist and professor. director of the SFU digital democracies institute. posts reflect my own views only.
banner from Mongrel Network's 2004 Bush-Blair project. Portrait by a wonderful scms audience member—let me know if you know them!
Daniel Gervais @danielgervais.bsky.social Law professor at Vandy. Sci-fi fan and writer. I teach IP and AI.
Tim Engelhardt @tengelhr.bsky.social Mostly on human rights, digital tech. Work at UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR). Posts personal.
Michael Plaxton @michaelplaxton.bsky.social Law professor. Books: Implied Consent & Sexual Assault; Sovereignty, Restraint, & Guidance; The Tenth Justice (w/ Carissima Mathen).
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
Suzie Dunn @suziedunn.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Dalhousie Schulich School of Law || Interim Director of the Law and Technology Institute 
Florian Martin-Bariteau @f-mb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Law & Chair in Technology and Society, @uOttawa.bsky.social • Director, @CDTSuOttawaCLTS.bsky.social • Faculty Associate, @BKCHarvard.bsky.social | #security #privacy #ai #blockchain #quantum
Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social Law professor; activist; not convinced we have time; acting as if we do.
Noah Feldman @noahfeldman.bsky.social Felix Frankfurter Professor, Chair of Society of Fellows @Harvard, Columnist @opinion.bsky.social
Ethics of Power
Mark Mancini @markpmancini.bsky.social Administrative law, statutory interpretation, prison law, wiener dog enthusiast
David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com Editor, McClelland & Stewart. Author. Writer. General purpose factotum. Lego enthusiast. PhD in political science, just in case.
Bruce B Ryder @bbryder.bsky.social Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Constitutional law, human rights.
Amar Khoday @amarkhoday.bsky.social Assoc Dean (JD Program) & Law Professor @ Robson Hall via McGill Law (LL.M, DCL), New England School of Law (JD) and Concordia History (BA, MA). Photographer. Posts & RTs ≠ Endorsements ssrn.com/author=1195963
Justin Ling @justinling.ca Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
Signal: JustinLing.42
Amy Salyzyn @amysalyzyn.bsky.social Law professor at uOttawa; interests include law & technology (use of technology in delivery legal services and in court system), legal & judicial ethics, access to justice, gender and the law | she/her
- S Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social Law & Literature, legal history, criminal law, IP, 18c/19C British literature || U of Toronto Law & English || OUP Law & Lit series http://tinyurl.com/y7fhvh36 || Oxford Hbk of Law & Humanities http://tinyurl.com/y95rdzl3 || SSRN https://tinyurl.com/SSRNss
Vanessa MacDonnell @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social Constitutional law professor @uottawa.bsky.social | Co-Director @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social | Canadian team lead @ucnpproject.bsky.social. Executive branch constitutionalism, rights, interpretation, the unwritten constitution https://macdonnell.substack.com
Tony Paisana @tonypaisana.bsky.social Partner at Peck and Company. Dad. Husband. Portuguese-Canadian 🇵🇹🇨🇦. Not necessarily in that order.
François Tanguay-Renaud @ftanguay-renaud.bsky.social Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto (criminal law and procedure, constitutional, public, emergency law, AI and the law) | LLB, BCL (McGill), BCL, DPHIL (Oxon.) | Past President JICS PA | Papa
Lisa Kerr @coleenlisa.bsky.social Law prof at Queen's in Kingston. Criminal law, evidence, sentencing, prisons.
Steve Matthews @steveamatthews.bsky.social Stem Legal founder & law firm web guy. Publisher of @slawdotca.bsky.social . COLPM fellow. Author. Law librarian. Husband & Dad. Whitecaps FC fan.
Mark Hayes 🇨🇦🤷🏻 @hayeselaw.com Canadian lawyer and arbitrator specializing in technology, privacy, e-commerce and IP. Golf, travel, art, music, culture. Usually found in Toronto or Athens, Greece. www.hayeselaw.com
I welcome civil differences of opinion, arseholes I immediately block.
Ben Perrin @profbenperrin.bsky.social Law professor; www.benjaminperrin.ca 
Richard Moon @richardmoon.bsky.social Professor, University of Windsor. Interest in free expression and religious freedom. 
Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social Still writing. Editor at Large WIRED. Hackers, Crypto, Facebook: The Inside Story, Insanely Great and other books. Signal: stevenlevy.72
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
Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social Professor, researcher, maker of things
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/ ]
Maria Helen Murphy @mariamurphy.bsky.social Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law.
🐦@maria_h_murphy
Paul Schwartz @paulschwartz.bsky.social Law professor at UC Berkeley and a Co-Director Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. International Expert in #Privacy & Security Law 🌐 paulschwartz.net
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) 🍋
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)
Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social Academically inclined K.C., @ UBC’s Allard School of Law. Teaching Torts, Intellectual Property, & A.I. Law this 2025/26 academic year. Also affiliated with QMUL CCLS. Sometimes sports-radio pundit. Of Counsel, Chandler Fogden Lyman. Vancouver Canada.
Kevin Tobia @kevintobia.bsky.social Law Professor at Georgetown. Legal interpretation, Supreme Court, philosophy, experimental jurisprudence, law & tech
Bio: https://bit.ly/4hQXQil | Papers: https://bit.ly/3OkT2nH 🏳️🌈
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
Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org Law prof at @uottawa.ca @ottawahealthlaw.ca in international & public law, global/public health, & human rights • Iranian-Canadian • love rescue dogs, cortados and waterfront runs • my works at www.roojinhabibi.org
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
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.
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)
Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com ARC Future Fellow – Monash University /// co-host – This Machine Kills /// critical insurance tech + climate risk governance /// political economy of technology and capitalism: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite
Evan Selinger @evanselinger.bsky.social Prof. Philosophy at RIT. Contributing writer at Boston Globe Ideas. Tech (yes, AI), ethics, privacy, policy, and power. http://www.eselinger.org/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute 
Ryan Calo @rcalo.bsky.social I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a new book about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
lmsacasas.bsky.social @lmsacasas.bsky.social Author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life.
theconvivialsociety.substack.com