Silkie Carlo

Silkie Carlo (born November 1989)[1] is a British civil rights advocate who has been the director of the British civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch since January 2018.[2]

She was educated at the University of Cambridge, where she read Politics and Psychology.[1]

She organises CryptoPartyLDN and has organised CryptoParties in the UK and Europe since 2013.[1][3][4][5][6]

Carlo worked on the official defence fund for Edward Snowden,[7] the Courage Foundation.[1]

She co-authored, with Arjen Kamphuis, Information Security for Journalists, which was commissioned by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and published during July 2014.[3][8]

She also worked at the human rights organisation Liberty,[2] at which she was Senior Advocacy Officer who led work on Technology and Human Rights[1] and drove a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.[9]

She appears in the 2020 American documentary film Coded Bias,[10] and in the 2024 film 2073.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Silkie Carlo | About". Technology & Human Rights. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Cunliffe, Rachel (19 April 2021). "Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo: "The rule of law has broken down"". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Silkie Carlo". The Centre for Investigative Journalism. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  4. ^ ""Coded Bias" Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion". Imperial College London. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  5. ^ "london [CryptoParty.]". www.cryptoparty.in. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  6. ^ "london:cpldn [CryptoParty.]". www.cryptoparty.in. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  7. ^ Cunliffe, Rachel (19 April 2021). "Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo: "The rule of law has broken down"". New Statesman. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Information Security for Journalists". FreeTechBooks. 1 May 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  9. ^ Carlo, Silkie (26 April 2017). "With the Snoopers' Charter, Our Digital Security Is Under Attack in the Name of Total Surveillance". Huffington Post. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Coded Bias (2020)". IMDb. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  11. ^ "Biennale Cinema 2024 | 2073". La Biennale di Venezia. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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