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]
She is a lifelong animal rights campaigner, and a vegangelist, and a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist. [1]