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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Geoffrey Irving @girving.bsky.social Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Resolution. Alignment will be solved eventually, but not necessarily in time. Previously UK AISI, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social Professor, Stanford University
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong
Matthew Taber @matthewtaber.bsky.social Matthew Taber | Healthcare Consultant & Advocate | #AISafety Policy Developer | #DirectPrimaryCare | | #HealthPolicy |
#ElvisAct | | Background Actor 🎬 |
Erik Passoja @bigbaderik.bsky.social Actor | Technologist | Co-Chair, LA New Technology Committee at #SAGAFTRA and LA Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) Committee | #informedconsent #provenance #provenancedata #digitalwatermarking #NCIS #TheFlightAttendant #SWAT #Hunters
Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com K.A. Brown |🎬 SAG-AFTRA LA Gov Affairs & Public Policy (GAPP) '23-'25 & Film Committee '23- '27 | Media Director @radiodramanetwork.bsky.social #CUNYTV | AI Safety/Ethics | Writer | NichePR | Hollywood | Docs |🌏#Climate
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Heather-Ashley Boyer @heatherashleyboyer.bsky.social 🎭 SAG-AFTRA Actress and LA Local Board Member | Govt. and Public Policy Committee | New Tech Committee 🤖 AI Policy Advisor | 🎬 Film Producer 🐶 Panini the Chiweenie’s human 💙 CA Democratic Party Labor Caucus | Cornell🎓 Pacific Council on Intl Policy 🌎
PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social Community of volunteers who work together to mitigate the risks of AI. We want to internationally pause the development of superhuman AI until it's safe.
https://pauseai.info
Plop @plopseven.bsky.social 
Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social Congressman for California's 36th District. Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus. Air Force Vet.
Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social TN state Senator D20. Former Mayor Oakhill TN. Songwriter. Singer. Mom. Environmentalist. Still believe in civility and compassion. https://wpln.org/post/episodes/profile-state-sen-heidi-campbell/
Joep Meindertsma @joepio.bsky.social 
Alex Alarga ⏹️ @alexalarga.bsky.social ⏹️: Stop ru occupation of Ukraine. Stop reckless rush towards dangerous super-intelligent AI. Stop pollution and climate change. @PauseAI . Opinions my own.
shanley @shanley.com The forbidden tech critic.
Venture capital, tech fascism, the Network State, crypto.
Welcome to my studio.
www.vcinfodocs.com
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
MJ Lira @mjlira.bsky.social Digital rights advocacy and research | Decolonial | Digital sociology MSc from @uoe-sps.bsky.social | Peruvian in London
hopeful.technology
Esteban Morales @estebanmorales.bsky.social Assistant professor @rug.nl
Latinoamericano studying digital culture, platformized violence, and critical data studies.
Website: https://esteban-morales.com/
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
Coding Rights @codingrights.bsky.social Somos uma organização que traz um olhar feminista interseccional para defender os direitos humanos no desenvolvimento, regulação e uso das tecnologias https://linkme.bio/codingrights
Andrea Medrado @andreamedrado.bsky.social Researcher; Diasporic Baiana; Associate Professor in Global Communications - University of Exeter / ♥️☀️🍻📕
InternetLab @internetlab.bsky.social Centro independente de pesquisa focado em internet e direitos humanos. Para mais informações, acesse internetlab.org.br
Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom.bsky.social Born out of #SaveTheInternet. IFF advances democratic freedoms in a digital society.
Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social 40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on data, privacy, and surveillance at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
Sebastián Lehuedé @slehuede.bsky.social Tech & Climate Justice. Lecturer @kingsdh.bsky.social. He/him http://slehuede.me.
Karina Montoya @pressgirlk.bsky.social 🌎 #journo researcher & program manager at @cmdgtech.bsky.social by @openmarkets.bsky.social 📝 media, digital markets, AI, public policy | 🗣ESP, FR, PT | https://linktr.ee/pressgirlk 📍Bay Area, CA |
Marianne Díaz Hernández @mariannedh.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, digital rights activist, migrant. Cat person. PDF hoarder. Coffee addict. Swiftie. / she/ella / http://the-far-away.com
Jaime Landinez @jlandinez.bsky.social anthropologist (phd stanford) of science & environment
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Diego Cerna Aragón @dc-a.bsky.social PhD candidate @ MIT | technoscience in Latin America; environmental history; cultural economy; media studies | mostly en español | usual disclaimers
Ana María Castillo @saltamentes.bsky.social Tech & Soc. Codirector IASIC UChile; Faculty Associate BKC Harvard; Prof. UIC Barcelona.
Descarga Mujeres de la Comunicación Chile: https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/la-comunicacion/21571.pdf
Bruna Martins dos Santos @brums.bsky.social Personal opinions only! All things tech And Human Rights ✨Policy and Advocacy @WITNESS
German Chancellor Fellow @AvHStiftung 2021-2022 | Previously @DigitalActionCo, @WZB, @DataPrivacyBr, @direitosnarede| She/Her
Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social 👨🏼🎓 Asst Prof of Digital Culture at Tilburg University
🌍 Director of Digital South Research Lab shorturl.at/jb5fD
✂️ Associate Editor at Journal of Information Technology & Politics
🪶 #StopAsianHate as Hashtag Activism shorturl.at/Yiiil
C.S.Negri @csnegri.bsky.social Requirements Eng/Interdisciplinarity | MSCA @Uni Luxembourg | RP/like ≠ endorsement | Faltas ortográficas | Sometimes != serious | Somewhere in Lux
I talk about data protection, privacy, (ciber)security, EU, USA and Chilean politics. Coffee & climbing ❤️
Asvatha @asvatha.bsky.social PhD (Communication Studies). Interested in researching media, emerging technologies, and governance. Currently looking at algorithmic state surveillance.
Trying something new: https://medium.com/@fireflyclass
Juan David Gutiérrez @juandgut.bsky.social Scholar. Interests: Public Policy, Public Management and Technology. Runner.
www.juangutierrez.co
Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social Pesquisador e ativista (pleonasmo) por justiça racial e tecnologias do bem viver. Doutor pela UFABC e alumni Mozilla. Cofundador da desvelar.org e colaborador da Nanet/ABONG.
Paulo Cepeda @paulocepeda.bsky.social Journalist · Periodista 🔆 To Teach is to Learn Twice · Enseñar es aprender dos veces 🎓 EdTech, Communication & Digital Ecosystem
Kofi @kofiemeritus.bsky.social Research Interest: Responsible AI in Global South | RTs ≠ endorsement
Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technecultura.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Burcu Baykurt @baykurt.bsky.social media studies, STS, cities, ethnography at UMass Amherst
bbaykurt@umass.edu | https://baykurt.org/ | https://itallhappenedbefore.substack.com/
Martha Fuentes Bautista @marthafuentesb.bsky.social 
Jonathan Corpus Ong @joncong.bsky.social Professor of Global Digital Media and Director, GloTechLab.net at UMass Amherst. #CarnegieFellows #OracleOng 🔮
Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
www.dangnguyen.digital
This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social Sociologist at UC San Diego. Author of Automating Finance (2019) & The Quantified Scholar (2022) http://tinyurl.com/2p82v69n Director Latin American Studies (2023-?) and the International Institute (2024-26) at UC San Diego.
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64 
Techni-Calli @iwillleavenow.bsky.social Global Privacy Counsel at EPIC, privacy advocate, nerd. Personal opinions, terrible jokes. CIPM, CIPP-US/E/C, FIP.
Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk
michael veale @michae.lv prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
Torment Nexus @priva.cat Panik. Kalm. Panik!
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
FPF.org
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. 💙
Whitney Merrill @wbm312.bsky.social I nudge people to care about privacy and security. CPO/DPO. Privacy/infosec lawyer. Hacker. Fighting for privacy, digital civil liberties & the users. Ex @EA @FTC |my views are my own. I used to post on Twitter at @wbm312.
Lea Kissner @leak.bsky.social Security, privacy, respect. Was the Twitter CISO until it was terrible. Now LinkedIn CISO. they/them
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)
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
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
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
Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social Chief Privacy Officer at Instructure. IAPP board member. Posts are my personal views. Dad, immigrant, tech geek. He/him/his. Substack: https://incbetter.substack.com/
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.
Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com Political technologist, bringing democracy to the internet. Brussels, 🇪🇺.
• tech, governance, science, politics, philosophy, infrastructure, cats, terrible puns
• DASL, Eurosky/Mu, Modal
• ex W3C, NYT
• Signal robin.77
Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social Founder & CEO LutaSecurity @payequitynow MIT&Harvard visiting scholar, @MasonNatSec fellow, 1/2 Chamoru, 1/2 Greek all-American hacker
the grugq @thegrugq.bsky.social 
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) 🍋
Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Amie Stepanovich @amiest.bsky.social Privacy, tech, security
My opinions are mine.
@mikko @mikko.bsky.social Fighting malicious use of technology.
Wolfie Christl @wchr.bsky.social Public-interest researcher at Cracked Labs | Research fellow at Citizen Lab | Vienna, Austria | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, data economy, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.
wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en
Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
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.
Peter Hense 🔔🇺🇦🇮🇱🇪🇺 @peterhense.bsky.social #NAFOfella | Litigator | data, tech, AI | co-host RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation | AI Act Compact: https://shop.ruw.de/AI-Act-Compact/978-3-8005-1960-6 | Passionate about politics, history, animal protection | Loves Rome & The Simpsons | Threema: YTN9VR2P
Justin Brookman @justinbrookman.bsky.social tech policy for Consumer Reports
Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social Security & Privacy. Data Protection. Research & Development. Engineering. Analyst. Policy. W3C. Consultant. Author. King’s College London/War Studies. me@lukaszolejnik.com
lukaszolejnik.com/books
blog.lukaszolejnik.com
techletters.substack.com
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social everybody deserves good security.
https://alecmuffett.com/about
nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social Head of Privacy @Incode. Board member @ Engine.is. Does the infosec law stuff too. Queer. Dorky. Lawyer, not really searching for redemption. @nsqe basically everywhere.
Be less toxic on bsky challenge, difficulty level pretty easy actually
Debra J Farber @privacyguru.bsky.social Post about Privacy, Security, Ethical Tech, AI & Safety
Vancouver, WA
https://shiftingprivacyleft.buzzsprout.com/
#PrivacySky
Interests: democracy; sci-fi; trivia; puzzles; & my beaglier
John Verdi @johnverdi.bsky.social SVP of Policy, Future of Privacy Forum
Also https://mastodon.social/@johnverdi and https://twitter.com/johnverdi
Daniel Sereduick @danielsereduick.bsky.social Cyber regulatory lawyer. Keen interest in all things digital, data, urban, global, empowering, liberating. American in Paris. Personal account/views.
Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social 
Carlo Piltz @carlopiltz.bsky.social Lawyer - Writer - Speaker - Chief & Co-Editor. 
Stefan Hessel @handle.invalid Rechtsanwalt | LL.M. | Head of Digital Business und Salary Partner bei www.reuschlaw.de | #Datenschutz #Cybersecurity #IT-Recht | #DSGVO #TeamDatenschutz
David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca Canadian internet and privacy law counsel to global companies. 
Björn O'Connor-López @keirlamont.bsky.social Data law and policy
I don't rock the boat, but it's always unsteady.
Jevan Hutson @jevan.bsky.social data privacy/cybersecurity attorney by day, tech law professor/clinic director by night. into data rights, not into data wrongs.
Rob van Eijk @rvaneijk.bsky.social Data & AI | Technologist, PhD (Law) | NYT, Bloomberg, MLEX, POLITICO
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)
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.
Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.
Love nothing better than a hike in the hills. Embracing Yutori ゆとり over on @yutoriwalking.bsky.social
Castlebridge @castlebridge.bsky.social Helping organisations put data to work responsibly, ethically, and compliantly. #DataStrategy #DataQuality #DataProtection. Also @castlebridge on Mastodon https://mastodon.ie/@Castlebridge
Amelia Vance @ameliaivance.bsky.social Child & student privacy geek, founder of @pipcprivacy.bsky.social, teach privacy and data protection at William & Mary Law School. Mostly sharing news on privacy, tech, civil rights, & things that make me smile.
electronic Max (Max Van Kleek) @emax.bsky.social Assoc. Prof–Computer Science, University of Oxford
LGBTQ+ fellow, ethical systems, AI, privacy, dignity and digital human rights. MIT Alumnus. Ex-IBM, Nokia, PARC.
lover of robot music 🤖⚡️
https://hip.cat/emax
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/max.vanklee
Norman @noaasm.bsky.social 💼 Privacy Lawyer | 🎓 Corporate & Commercial Law LL.M alumni @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | interested in tech, cybersecurity, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪 | views my own
Colin @micshasan.bsky.social Lucidprivacy.io, briefly.co, Ghostery, Evidon, pirategrids.com, SF, NYC, dad, hubby. Privacy is a human right. Gimme more music …