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FEDIDEVS

European digital rights people
By Jan Penfrat @[email protected]

Individual accounts from the digital rights community in Europe

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Director of Cybersecurity
@EFF
/ Co-founder of
@stopstalkerware
/ These are my opinions, not my employers’ / I did a TED talk once

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 1,485
Followers 54,867
Following 302
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Social oncologist.

I make small things.

Unapologetically anti-genocide.

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (creativecommons.org/licenses/b)

🍉🌻 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 45,724
Followers 44,278
Following 11,058
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Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft.


Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 583
Followers 21,420
Following 701
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Ulrich Kelber
@[email protected]

Rheinländer, Informatiker, Demokrat. MdB 2000-2019, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär a.D., Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit a.D.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 3,005
Followers 16,406
Following 109
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Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. Email: [email protected] | License CC BY-SA-4.0 tfr

"Ein-Mann-Gegenkultur" (SPIEGEL)

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 7,437
Followers 12,669
Following 572
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Patrick Breyer
@[email protected]

Dr. Patrick Breyer. Digitaler Freiheitskämpfer, @piratenpartei, ehem. Europaabgeordneter. Former MEP for @piratenpartei and the European Pirate Party.
Homepage: patrick-breyer.de
Posts auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 and in English 🇬🇧 . tfr

Last posted 5 days ago
Posts 2,683
Followers 11,799
Following 30
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Jérémie Zimmermann🎶💗🧀🫖5946
@[email protected]

ᐸ3 Mostly offline - My life is music and music is life - Hacking with Care! @HackingWithCare /
Sings in showers / cheese / GNU / Berlin / datalove.net / / / / ex-@LaQuadrature

Last posted 4 days ago
Posts 4,327
Followers 8,135
Following 5,671
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Ulf Buermeyer
@[email protected]

Juggling Laws & Octets. Co-Founder & Board Member @Freiheitsrechte. Host @lagedernation. GPG 0x56d803e1

Last posted 2 weeks ago
Posts 496
Followers 6,307
Following 207
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pretalx▪Python/Django/vue.js▪Three Django projects in a trench coat▪he/him

Admin here. Please report instead of DMing.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 18,297
Followers 6,156
Following 506
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(Luckily not only) Law, Privacy and Politics.

Last posted 3 days ago
Posts 77
Followers 5,682
Following 1
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Matthias Eberl
@[email protected]

Journalist, Educator, Researcher Freelancer e.g. SZ, Netzpolitik, Kuketz-Blog.
🏆 Deutscher Reporterpreis

Sometimes I also write some small things about the climate crisis .

Account is .

Last posted 5 days ago
Posts 3,512
Followers 4,923
Following 403
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khaleesi (Elina Eickstädt)
@[email protected]

CCC | Dragon Queen fighting for digital rights | Sometimes hacking

Last posted 6 days ago
Posts 873
Followers 4,870
Following 353
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Wolfie Christl
@[email protected]

Public-interest researcher crackedlabs.org | Tech and society. Tracking, surveillance, consumer data, platform power, algorithmic decisions, datafication of work.

wolfie.crackedlabs.org/en

Last posted 6 days ago
Posts 2,353
Followers 4,620
Following 244
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@PrivacyMatters
@[email protected]

Pat Walshe. Advocate for privacy and broader human rights impacted by data.



Last posted 1 month ago
Posts 1,460
Followers 3,401
Following 283
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OSI Standards director · Meshed Insights CEO · Geek-Nerd · Cat servant.

On the Internet since 1987 (via BBSes) · Prior Fediverse: identi.ca from 2008; mastodon.cc from 2017. Old posts are auto-deleted.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,599
Followers 3,123
Following 447
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I work at @openrightsgroup

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,794
Followers 2,989
Following 1,390
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Matthias Kirschner
@[email protected]

The @fsfe 's President fsfe. Working for (also known as ), so every individual in our society can self-determined use, study, share, and improve software ➡

Author of the book "Ada & - A tale of software, skateboards, and raspberry ice cream".

Public Money? !

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 2,230
Followers 2,938
Following 233
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Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,216
Followers 2,892
Following 621
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💻 policy/regulation researcher (esp. 🗳 ). ⛷🚴🏻‍♂️🥾🗺. Visiting Prof at Centre for Technology & Society, Getulio Vargas Foundation Law School, Rio de Janeiro 👨‍🏫 Formerly 🇬🇧 gov’t Principal Scientific Officer 👨‍🔬 and Prof @oiioxford Estoy aprendiendo español v8rified

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 3,892
Followers 2,516
Following 321
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Policy guy @edri, working on platform regulation, content moderation, data protection and surveillance ads in Europe.

Digital security trainer, Chief Degoogliser, cyclist, lover of the outdoors. Formerly writing for Golem.de.

Views my own.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 3,997
Followers 1,963
Following 1,586
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Marcel Kolaja
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runner, biker, dog person, vegetarian, MEP 2019--2024
EU politics, tech policy, digital rights, Free and Open Source Software
born at 339 ppm

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,109
Followers 1,928
Following 57
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Alice Stollmeyer
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Executive Director @DefendDemocracy. Busy to & values against hybrid, illiberal & tech threats.

🏆 #1 female 2019 & 2020; in 2023

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 656
Followers 1,905
Following 115
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Senior Fellow at ICCL & OpenMarkets. Previously Chief Policy Officer Brave. FRHistS.

Last posted 4 weeks ago
Posts 409
Followers 1,757
Following 920
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Konstantin Macher
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digital rights advocate with a focus on (in-)security politics | feeling strongly about democracy | obviously antifascist | toots mostly in English and German.
pre-2024 toots: @konstantin

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,845
Followers 1,697
Following 472
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Mariano delli Santi
@[email protected]

Legal and Policy Officer @openrightsgroup

"Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." - cit.

Data protection, ArtificiaI intelligence, Social media pluralism, Brexit and UK - EU divergence in digital regulation.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 963
Followers 1,639
Following 573
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AGC for Cybersecurity & Civil Liberties Policy at Filecoin Foundation, former Deputy ED and GC of EFF, now EFF Special Counsel, affiliate of BKC Harvard, board emeritus USENIX, advisory board Open Archive, Technical Advisory Council CISA. Toots are my own.

Last posted 1 week ago
Posts 230
Followers 1,546
Following 237
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I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and don’t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless. (he/him | they/them)

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Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 3,550
Followers 1,414
Following 1,253
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Markus Korporal
@[email protected]

Unternehmenskommunikation & Projektmanagement bei Tag - Dungeons & digitale Bürgerrechte bei Nacht.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 491
Followers 1,166
Following 429
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Chairman IT-Pol Denmark, member of EDRi.

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 825
Followers 1,114
Following 607
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO
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EU Policy Analyst for the Open Source Initiative. Former APA. Expert in 💻Digital, 🚄Transport, and 🧪Research Policy.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,770
Followers 1,007
Following 947
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Alexander Hanff
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Privacy Advocate

Last posted 1 week ago
Posts 672
Followers 1,000
Following 1,150
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Joris van Hoboken
@[email protected]

Law Professor at Institute for Information law (IViR) & VUB: Information law, fundamental rights, digital transformation, quantum technologies, platform regulation

Last posted 19 months ago
Posts 161
Followers 980
Following 768
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Ella Jakubowska
@[email protected]

Digital human rights policy at civil society group @edri, posting mostly about EU laws & policies relating to (aka ) and .

Social justice warrior and social justice worrier.
🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)

Last posted 3 weeks ago
Posts 65
Followers 947
Following 338
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Matthias Spielkamp
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Founder & ED @algorithmwatch, founder algorithmwatch.ch. Board member Reporter-ohne-grenzen.de, test.de Life member basicincome.org

Last posted 3 months ago
Posts 160
Followers 927
Following 80
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Walter van Holst
@[email protected]

Doing stuff in data protection, healthcare law and privacy-by-design. Moonlighting as digital rights activist. Innocent bystander in infosec scene.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 6,111
Followers 842
Following 674
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digital sociologist / strategist / activist. Open Future (EU), Communia (EU), Creative Commons (World), Centrum Cyfrowe (PL)

Last posted 2 months ago
Posts 440
Followers 668
Following 325
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I care about democracy, and build projects that make it stronger. Based in Dublin.

Last posted 3 months ago
Posts 41
Followers 603
Following 87
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Eduardo d3⚖️​copyleft🔓
@[email protected]

Lawyer • Law & Tech • Interested in Digital Rights: Copyright, Freedom of Expression, Privacy, Net Neutrality et al. • Knowledge Rights 21 Coordinator in Portugal • doing stuff @d3 • awarded meme creator

High Tech, Law Life

Lisbon, Portugal • EN/PT

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,439
Followers 593
Following 443
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Researching Big Tech and digital security fails in authoritarian contexts. Frm. based in Myanmar. Exiled since the coup.

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Last posted 4 months ago
Posts 83
Followers 544
Following 350
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Suzanne Vergnolle
@[email protected]

Associate Professor (MCF) in Technology Law @lecnam. All about Digital Rights, Content Moderation, Personal Data, AI & Data.
🚲 & parfois Ballerina.

Last posted 3 weeks ago
Posts 293
Followers 541
Following 239
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May contain snark.

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 1,102
Followers 431
Following 119
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Karolina Iwanska
@[email protected]

Human rights and technology

Digital Civic Space Advisor @ the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)

Last posted 23 months ago
Posts 157
Followers 339
Following 82
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Director of policy at Open Future. Advocate for more open, just & inclusive digital policies in Europe & beyond. Collector of collateral knowledge. Depending on the task I can shape-shift between being a systems architect, an analysis, an activist or a cyclist.

Last posted 1 month ago
Posts 145
Followers 334
Following 291
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Martin Degeling
@[email protected]

working @[email protected]
Privacy, usability, algo audits.

Last posted 2 weeks ago
Posts 431
Followers 323
Following 495
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Mario Restuccia
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Digital rights, trains, freedom of information, urban policy, open data, and lots of progressive politics

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 354
Followers 303
Following 495
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Digital rights and policy at the Norwegian Consumer Council.

Last posted 24 months ago
Posts 35
Followers 242
Following 218
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Alexander Hohlfeld
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Digitalisation & Society | Digital Policy | Recommender Systems | Civil Liberties | Affective Polarisation | 🗣️: 🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪 |📍Brussels 🇧🇪 / 🇪🇺

Last posted 2 days ago
Posts 168
Followers 230
Following 597
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Lobbying in the EU · Big Tech · Anti-Monopoly · Trade Policy · NGO · Transparency @lobbyctrl_tech

Last posted 3 weeks ago
Posts 63
Followers 202
Following 73
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Anna Buchta #SlavaUkraini 🇪🇺🇵🇱
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boring bEUrocrat | immigrant | mother | views my own | toots deleted after 2 months | ⭐️ not (necessarily) endorsement

Last posted 14 months ago
Posts 15
Followers 178
Following 72
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A running junkie in the morning, a policy manager during daytime and a karaoke fanatic by night / all views are my own

Last posted 1 day ago
Posts 245
Followers 162
Following 419