Ben Snyder
I write about technology run amok, capitalism, and other depressing things while also envisioning a world beyond them.
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Journalist. Quattrone Center journalism fellow. Author: Rise of the Warrior Cop. Co-author: The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Forthcoming book: The Defenders (Spring 2026) Substack: radleybalko.substack.com Signal: radleybalko.52
@bcnewell.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Oregon. Author of "Police Visibility": https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility | Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society | Co-Director, Surveillance Studies Network (SSN)
@anavaldi.bsky.social
Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the oii.ox.ac.uk | Investigating the environmental impacts of AI | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Fellow at UCL IAS https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/ana-valdivia
@tjmcintyre.com
I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights generally), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University; Visiting Prof. in Humanities, Computing & Design @ Rochester Institute of Technology. cyberneticforests.com
@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/
@yungau.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ Geography, University of Oxford Abolition/coloniality/mapping supply chain of surveillance/surv tech legislation twitter.com/a_yung_ mastodon: @yung.scholar.social
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@joshlauer.bsky.social
Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social
Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
@mnagenborg.bsky.social
Roleplaying nerd with a bad taste in movies and a day job in a Philosophy department. My more professional posts: https://bsky.app/profile/mnagenborg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
@torinmonahan.bsky.social
Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
@azadehakbari.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Digital Transformation, University of Twente 🇮🇷🇩🇪 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow for the project authoritarian smart cities www.Azadeh-Akbari.com Co-Director @Survstudiesnet.bsky.social Founder @surveillancemw.bsky.social *personal account*
@privacyinternational.org
For a world where technology will empower and enable us, not exploit our data for profit and power. https://privacyinternational.org We're currently working out which platform to prioritise so please bear with us!
@doctornilz.bsky.social
Soziologe, Ethnologe, Kriminologe, Mediator / Überwachung, Konflikt, Sicherheit, Doping, Ethnographie, Polizei, Mit-Herausgeber kommunikation-gesellschaft.de
@cliu.bsky.social
Sociologist at Microsoft Research working on STS, data, and the state. Incoming Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
@mariamurphy.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law. 🐦@maria_h_murphy
@stephjayb.bsky.social
Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State | U Toronto Press, 2024 Assoc Prof English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 UK, Caribbean, Black British Lit | GWS rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
@ianbrown.tech
💻 regulation (🔑 #privacy 🗳) ⛷🚴🏻♂️🥾🗺 🇮🇨🇪🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈 Visiting Prof, FGV Law, Rio de Janeiro 👨🏫 Formerly DCMS Principal Scientific Officer/Prof. Information Security & Privacy @oii.ox.ac.uk Fedi @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy
@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
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@stopspyingny.bsky.social
Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@amygaeta.bsky.social
Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today She/They amygaeta.com
@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
@savasavasava.bsky.social
academic. filmmaker. straight-presenting-bi. nyc asshole in tkaronto. she/her/auntiefa. acab. www.screeningsurveillance.com amuse|muse|use|us|u pfp: me drinking coffee from guillotine mug banner: jealous gf meme with Marx, & Rom & Quark from ds9 iykyk
@anthropunk.bsky.social
Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company.
@aramsinn.bsky.social
SFF/Nonfiction Author Media Prof at American U Bassist/Producer (jazz, reggae, worldbeat) 💙📚THE SECRET LIFE OF DATA 💿 OUT OF OUR CELLS: Songs by Incarcerated Musicians in DC sinnreich.com https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048811/ linktree.com/wassako
@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.
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@evangreer.bsky.social
Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. Last album "Spotify is Surveillance" out now on Don Giovanni Records and Get Better Records. she/her/they/them
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@amystevens.bsky.social
Sociologist/Criminologist Researching surveillance, resistance, encryption, human rights, law enforcement, and tech
@noaasm.bsky.social
⚖️ LL.M Candidate in Corporate & Commercial Law @ Maastricht University | 🎓 Public Int'l Law LL.M alumni @ University of Oslo | 💼 Privacy Lawyer | interested in tech, data protection, international law & geopolitics | 📍🇪🇪/🇳🇱 | views my own
@eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
Postdoc fellow & visiting professor in philosophy of media & technology / University of Vienna / Prague University of Business and Economics / Technical University Cottbus / eugeniastamboliev.com
@serife.bsky.social
Artist investigating AI, power, and belief at IcarusSalon.com, on boards of Gray Area & Tech Inquiry, affiliate of ORCAA & Kidd Lab UC Berkeley. Educating via ArtificialLifeCoach.com on Insta and Tiktok.
@jesseyarbrough.bsky.social
Grad student at the Naval Postgraduate School. Tin-foil hat-wearing privacy advocate.
@mrafalow.bsky.social
sociologist @ youtube and usc. edtech, platformed creation, and youth culture 💻🎥📺 mattrafalow.org / matt.rafalow at gee-✉️
@shreeharsh.bsky.social
Continuing Lecturer, UC-Berkeley. I study AI, algorithms, organizations, work, labor, and expertise. Writing a book about MOOCs, data, and educational expertise. Website: https://shreeharshkelkar.net Substack: https://computingandsociety.substack.com/
@ibnsofar.bsky.social
Adjunct Professor at CUNY. Writes on Surveillance, Counterinsurgency, "Terrorism" / "Counterterrorism" and Islamophobia.
@gleemie.bsky.social
Prof UCSD Comm, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, TWC SD, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker.
@assiaw.bsky.social
phd candidate reading about face analysis @ Paris-Saclay • STS/sociology • they/she • fr+eng > flashlab seminar