ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
Felix Quirmbach @fquirmbach.bsky.social PhD Student (Cognitive Neuroscience) @TU Dresden in Jakub Limanowski's Lab. Studying the adaptation of own-body models via Neuroimaging & VR.
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.
Schiele Lab @schiele-lab.bsky.social Official account of the Chair of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy headed by Prof. Dr. Miriam Schiele at @tudresden.bsky.social https://tud.link/s3hzkm
James Gleick @around.com Author. Chaos, The Information, Time Travel.
Other work can be found at https://around.com.
My new history of the telephone will appear in November.
On the open social web I'm gleick@mas.to.
Laura Hetz @laurahetz.bsky.social PhD student @ ETH Zurich
Andrew Cairns @acairns.co.uk Using metaphors and analogies to explain Software Engineering in fun ways: https://youtube.com/@metaphoricallyspeaking
Staff Software Engineer. Passionate about DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing and Distributed Systems.
Kayaking, too.
UBERMORGEN @ubermorgen.bsky.social Userunfriendly netart and pixel pleasantries.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov U.S. Senator for Oregon. Rotisserie chicken enthusiast. Senate’s resident privacy hawk.
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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social 💼 Privacy Lawyer | ⚖️ LL.M Candidate in Corporate & Commercial Law @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | interested in tech, cybersecurity, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪 | views my own
European Data Protection Supervisor @edps.europa.eu News from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
How do we process your data: https://link.europa.eu/B88Gfy
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Dennis E. Taylor @dennisetaylor.bsky.social Author of the Bobiverse series.
I am a retired computer programmer, mountain biker, snowboarder, occasional napper, and lover of pizza and coffee (mostly coffee).
Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social A nerd who likes cryptography. A bit weird, a bit witty, a bit whimsical
Fediverse: @Natanael_L@mastodon.social
DM open. For E2EE IM: @Natanael_L:matrix.org
ccTLD: SE
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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
Daniel Hugenroth @lambda.bsky.social Computer Security Researcher @ Cambridge (https://www.danielhugenroth.com) and Co-Founder @ Light Squares (https://www.lightsquares.dev)
Thomas Blankenburg @realbaba.bsky.social Digital- und Medienpolitik aus der Provinz (TH) für #Grüne in der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft (BAG DigiMe)
Technical Writing
Vater von K1(08), K2(11) und K3(18)
Statthalter des abwesenden Matriarchats (@madeleinehenfling.bsky.social)
AI4LT @ai4lt.bsky.social Artificial Intelligence for Language Technologies (AI4LT) Group, at
@kit.edu
Tjerand Silde @tjesi.bsky.social Associate Professor in Cryptology and Research Group Leader at the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab in Trondheim, Norway.
Homepage: https://tjerandsilde.no
Research group: https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/nacl-lab
Valerie O'Neill @minabird.bsky.social Thinking of upgrading to a CMP that respects citizen choices?
Get in touch at baycloud.com !
Independent European, security & privacy-first CMP
integrated cookie-free alternative to GA
co- founder with @mikeoneillcloud.bsky.social
Mancunian, mum of 3
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca - D Dan Boneh @danboneh.bsky.social Crypotgrapher
Christian Cachin @cryptobern.bsky.social
@cascremers.bsky.social @cascremers.bsky.social
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
Chelsea Komlo @chelseakomlo.bsky.social (Real world) Cryptographer.
chelseakomlo.com for more info.
The Register @theregister.com Your favorite enterprise technology news vultures, flying high in the Bluesky – On the web since 1998 – More here: https://www.theregister.com/
Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social (Mostly) Internet data science.
Lecturer (aka Assistant Prof.) at QMUL and IRTF chair of RASP RG. My orthography is creative, no typos here.
Daskritzelt @daskritzelt.bsky.social Im Garten eines Kraken und jetzt halt auch hier, weil man mich nicht loswird. So wie den VFL Bochum oder Herpes.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
Daniel Slamanig @drl3c7er.bsky.social Full Professor of Cryptology @ Universität der Bundeswehr München | Research Institute CODE👾 Prev: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology; Lect. TU Wien; TU Graz
Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca SocialMediaLab.ca
- News, analysis & views by @philipmai.com re: the politics of tech, social media, AI, immigration, democracy, mis/disinfo, war & propaganda. Explore our suite of social media tools for public interest research: socialmedialab.ca/apps/
Shlomi Hod @hodthoughts.bsky.social Responsible AI. Previously, BU, OpenDP, Columbia, Twitter
https://shlomi.hod.xyz
he/they
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
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
Anna Biselli @annskaja.bsky.social Co-Chefredakteurin von @netzpolitik.org
Quantum Bullshit Detector @bullshitquantum.bsky.social Quantum Bullshit Detector.
Tag for a reading.
Luca Belli @1lucabelli.bsky.social Prof at FGV Law School, heading CTS.FGV.br and CyberBRICS.info
Director of CPDP.lat
Personal Views
Tor Project @torproject.org We're a nonprofit defending your privacy and freedom online. Download Tor Browser for protection against surveillance and censorship. http://t.me/TorProject
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
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams.
Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov This account is maintained by federal staff to share services and legislation relevant to constituents of NY-14.
Martin Henze @henze.bsky.social Securing industrial networks, one bit at a time. Assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University and research group leader at Fraunhofer FKIE.
Sven Engesser @svengesser.bsky.social Professor of Science and Technology Communication at Technische Universität Dresden
Mathieu Cunche @cunchem.bsky.social Honest-but-Curious Researcher. Prof. at INSA-Lyon CITI / Inria, France. Privacy, Security, Personal Data Protection, Computer Networks, Wireless, Mobile.
Michelle Hogan @michellehogan.bsky.social 🇨🇦Not buying or selling but hope to help Seniors where I can. 🚫No DMs.🚫
Professional Retiree, Musician, 33rd Degree Cat Herder, one Mensa candidate that knows better.🇨🇦
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
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.
Max Well @maxbestpolitics.bsky.social Politischer Content aus Deutschland und der Welt. Analysen, Meinungen und Diskussionen zu politischen Themen. Politik ist Kunst.
Political content from Germany and around the world. Analyses, opinions and discussions on political issues. Politics is art.
netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org Offizieller Account von netzpolitik.org, dem Medium für digitale Freiheitsrechte. Anfragen bitte per E-Mail an kontakt@netzpolitik.org.
CPDPconferences @cpdpconferences.bsky.social CPDP is the EU's leading interdisciplinary forum for legal, regulatory and academic debates on technological development and the digital society.
🔗 https://www.cpdpconferences.org/
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organisation | Brussels, Belgium
Council of Europe @coe.int 46 countries working together to promote
#HumanRights
#Democracy
#RuleOfLaw
Stefan Kiebel @stefankiebel.bsky.social Research on computational cognitive models, the role of contexts, decision-making, Bayesian brain theories, and neuroimaging. Chair of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience @TU Dresden. More info on: https://tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie/ifap/ccns
Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Kenny Paterson @kennyog.bsky.social Bit flipper
lucy qin @lucyq.bsky.social security & privacy researcher, postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University
https://lucyq.in
Svea Windwehr @sveawindwehr.bsky.social Fundamental rights, platform governance and other internet stuff. Policy @Mozilla. Co-Chair @D-64.org. Member of the advisory council of the German DSC. Views all hers.
Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist, publicist. https://berthub.eu/ More active on Mastodon -> @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social -> Nederlandse BlueSky @berthub.eu
Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu Voormalig toezichthouder, schrijver van stukjes, nerd, amateur wetenschapper. Spreekt namens niemand. https://berthub.eu/
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
META BENE @meta-bene.bsky.social Cartoons
Für Originalzeichnungen, Shop, Newsletter, Steady-Unterstützung bitte hier entlang: www.metabene.de/links
erzaehlmirnix @erzaehlmirnix.bsky.social Linksgrüne Paint-Comics & Flucherei
erzaehlmiralles@gmx.de
Krieg und Freitag @kriegundfreitag.bsky.social „Um die Wette existieren“ - jetzt überall, wo es Bücher gibt!
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social Director of Platform Regulation, Stanford Law School LST Program. Former Google (2004-2015) Legal Director for Web Search, Speech and Intermediary Liability Issues.
May be cranky.
https://law.stanford.edu/daphne-keller/
Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli
🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li
🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli
TiffanyLi.com if you insist
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
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.
Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program HKS
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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.
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
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.
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.bsky.social, https://josephhall.org/, (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
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) 🍋
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
Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
FPF.org
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 ✋🏾
Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Jonathan Mayer @mayer.bsky.social Princeton prof and tech + law person. Previously at the Justice Department, Senate, FCC, Stanford, and CalDOJ. Views are solely my own.
Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Kurt Opsahl @kurtopsahl.bsky.social Counsel at RCJ Law, former Deputy ED and GC of EFF, now EFF Special Counsel, president SRLDF, board emeritus USENIX, advisor Open Archive, former Technical Advisory Council CISA. Skeets are my own.
Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social Associate Professor, Stanford Law School. Aussie struggling with °F & online speech stuff.
Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
Jeff Kosseff @jkosseff.bsky.social Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota, jeffkosseff.com
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Chinmayi Arun @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Law & Technology researcher. Executive Director @yaleisp.bsky.social. Lecturer & Research Scholar, Yale Law School. Posts are personal.
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. 💙
Amie Stepanovich @amiest.bsky.social Privacy, tech, security
My opinions are mine.
Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me Law professor | Privacy, AI*, Technology and Society | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar.bsky.social "suh-ROOS" / سیروس
🕵️ 20+ year tech journalist, editor, author, comms
🔥 🏡 Ex: Fire Aside
📰 🎧 Ex: Forbes, NBC, Ars Technica
🖖 Friend of DeSoto
😎 Nice dude
🐻 4th-gen Californian // Oakland, CA
📥 cyrus@farivar.media
📱 +1-341-758-0888 (mobile/Signal)
Nate Persily @persily.bsky.social James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Barry Friedman @barryfriedman1.bsky.social Professor @nyulaw. Director @policingproject. Litigator, author (and dad). Author - Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission; The Will of the People; Open Book
Kristen Eichensehr @keichensehr.bsky.social Law professor. Editor @justsecurity.org. Working on foreign relations, cybersecurity, and national security.
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
Siva @sivav.bsky.social Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community