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