Silkie Carlo

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Silkie Carlo (born 1989) [1] has been the director of the British civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch since 2018. [2]

She worked on the defence fund for Edward Snowden [3] and appears in the 2020 American documentary film Coded Bias . [4] With Arjen Kamphuis, she co-authored Information Security for Journalists, commissioned by the Centre for Investigative Journalism. [5] [6] She has been an organizer of CryptoParty events in London. [5] [7] [8] [9]

Before starting her role at Big Brother Watch in January 2018, she worked at the human rights organisation Liberty. [2] She was Senior Advocacy Officer, led work on Technology and Human Rights, and drove a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. [10]

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