Silkie Carlo

Silkie Carlo (born November 1989)[1][2] is an English libertarian civil rights advocate who has been the director of the British civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch since January 2018.[3]

During 2011 and 2012, she dated, lived with, and protested with Charles Veitch,[4][5] whom she defended after he was arrested for planning to disrupt the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton,[6][7] by which she was 'outraged'.[6]

She was described as a 'beautiful conspiracy theorist' by Vice magazine in 2013.[5]

She read Politics, Psychology, and Sociology,[4] at the University of Cambridge.[1]

She organises CryptoPartyLDN and has organised CryptoParties in the UK and Europe since 2013.[1][8][9][10][11]

She worked on the official defence-fund for Edward Snowden,[12] 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.[8][13]

She also worked at the human-rights organisation Liberty,[3] 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.[14]

She was a director of the anti-monarchy campaign Republic between 2021 and 2022.[2]

She appears in the 2020 American documentary film Coded Bias,[15] and in the 2024 film 2073.[16]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Silkie Carlo | About". Technology & Human Rights. 21 November 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Entry for Silkie Carlo". Companies House. 11 February 2021.
  3. 1 2 Cunliffe, Rachel (19 April 2021). "Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo: "The rule of law has broken down"". New Statesman. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Former bank worker who helped to bring chaos to streets of London". The Standard. 12 April 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Conspiracy Theorists Are Dangerous Enemies to Make". Vice Magazine. 24 April 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Royal wedding: police use section 60 to deter anarchists". The Guardian. 29 April 2011.
  7. ↑ "Man arrested in Cambridge for royal wedding protest plan". BBC News Online. 29 April 2011.
  8. 1 2 "Silkie Carlo". The Centre for Investigative Journalism. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  9. ↑ ""Coded Bias" Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion". Imperial College London. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  10. ↑ "london [CryptoParty.]". www.cryptoparty.in. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "london:cpldn [CryptoParty.]". www.cryptoparty.in. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  12. ↑ Cunliffe, Rachel (19 April 2021). "Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo: "The rule of law has broken down"". New Statesman. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "Information Security for Journalists". FreeTechBooks. 1 May 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ "Coded Bias (2020)". IMDb. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  16. ↑ "Biennale Cinema 2024 | 2073". La Biennale di Venezia. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
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