Surveillance in the Majority World Network
Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@edwardongwesojr.com
writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com
@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
@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
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@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
@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.
@mguariglia.bsky.social
Historian of race, policing, surveillance, and technology. Senior Policy Analyst at EFF. Visiting Professor at Emory. Book on race and the origins of modern policing out now! MatthewGuariglia.com
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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 🏳️🌈
@stopspyingny.bsky.social
Fighting to abolish local & state surveillance.
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@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
@ianbrown.tech
💻 regulation (🔑 #privacy 🗳) ⛷🚴🏻♂️🥾🗺 🇮🇨🇪🇸🇪🇺🏳️🌈🌻 Visiting Prof @fgvoficial.bsky.social 👨🏫 Formerly DCMS Principal Scientific Officer/Prof. Information Security & Privacy @oii.ox.ac.uk Tech News @1br0wn.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy
@sarahbrayne.bsky.social
Sociology Professor at Stanford | Author of Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing | Founding Director of the Texas Prison Education Initiative
@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
@mariamurphy.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Maynooth University. Technology Law & Human Rights, Privacy, Surveillance, AI, Media Law. 🐦@maria_h_murphy
@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
@doctornilz.bsky.social
Soziologe, Ethnologe, Kriminologe, Mediator / Überwachung, Konflikt, Sicherheit, Doping, Ethnographie, Polizei, Mit-Herausgeber kommunikation-gesellschaft.de
@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!
@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*
@torinmonahan.bsky.social
Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Studies surveillance, tech, platforms. Co-Editor-in-Chief of Surveillance & Society.
@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
@sophiamaalsen.bsky.social
Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
@joshlauer.bsky.social
Media studies prof | History of communication tech, surveillance & information | Author of CREDITWORTHY, co-editor of SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM IN AMERICA
@amystevens.bsky.social
Sociologist/Criminologist Researching surveillance, resistance, encryption, human rights, law enforcement, and tech
@rosamundevb.bsky.social
assistant prof criminology VUB teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI, research: digital & more-than-human criminology, critical surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
@hypervisible.bsky.social
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
@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
@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/
@eryk.bsky.social
Situationist Cybernetics, Artist/Researcher, anti-AI AI artist. Aim to be kind. Researcher, AI Pedagogies, metaLab (at) Harvard University. Artist in Residence @ the Machine Visual Culture Research Group, Max Planck Institute, Rome. cyberneticforests.com
@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.
@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
@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)
@wewatchwatchers.bsky.social
@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
@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.
@tante.cc
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: [email protected] | Masto: @[email protected] (Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
@tynedaile.bsky.social
ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ | current project: surveilit.com | everything else: tynedaile.com
@whotargets.me
On political ads, transparency and what's right for democracy. Go to https://whotargets.me/download to get involved, check out https://trends.whotargets.me for data on >100k digital political advertisers. Newsletter: fulldisclosure.whotargets.me
@matthiasleese.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Technology and Governance @ethz.ch ¦ PI @curateproject.bsky.social ¦ Editor-in-chief @jird-jour.bsky.social https://matthiasleese.com
@xotoxot.bsky.social
Visiting Professor Karlstad University. Associate professor Radboud University Nijmegen. Privacy Engineering Boffin. Author of "Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths. Achieving Privacy Through Careful Design", MIT Press, 2021. Posts in English and Dutch