Silkie Carlo

Silkie Carlo is a British civil rights advocate who has been the director of the British civil liberties NGO Big Brother Watch since January 2018.
She was educated at the University of Cambridge, where she read Politics and Psychology.
She organises CryptoPartyLDN and has organised CryptoParties in the UK and Europe since 2013.
Carlo worked on the official defence fund for Edward Snowden, The Courage Foundation.
She co-authored, with Arjen Kamphuis, Information Security for Journalists, which was commissioned by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and published during July 2014.
She also worked at the human rights organisation Liberty, at which she was Senior Advocacy Officer who led work on Technology and Human Rights and drove a legal challenge to the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
She appears in the 2020 American documentary film Coded Bias, and in the 2024 film 2073.
She is a lifelong animal rights campaigner, and a vegangelist, and a Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist.