A new article in World Policy Journal as part of the joint project by Privacy International, Agentura.Ru and the Citizen Lab on Russia’s surveillance state.

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), India has launched its CIS Cybersecurity video series, a video documentary project which features interviews conducted by Laird Brown with cybersecurity stakeholders from various sectors on hotly debated aspects of cybersecurity. The project aims to encourage wider public discussion around cybersecurity issues.

In June 2013, 135 people from 45 countries, including our Doctoral Fellow Jennie Phillips, gathered for a week-long camp to discuss everything from digital security to physical security, campaign design to graphic design, crisis mapping and open street mapping, data visualization, curation, and analysis.

In 2013, the Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) published “The Economic Cost of Cybercrime in Nigeria,” a report written by ‘Gbenga Sesan, Babatope Soremi, and Bankole Oluwafemi. The authors provide quantitative data for measuring the extent of cybercrime in Nigeria and propose recommendations for combating its influence in the country. PIN’s report is the first major study dedicated entirely toward quantitatively measuring the costs of cybercrime in Nigeria.

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman was interviewed this week on the subject of Syria’s online conflict.

This project is a large-scale comparison of the three services, matching thousands of Chinese-language Wikipedia articles with their in-China counterparts, in order to identify the “content gaps” in the two baike. The difficulties of identifying traditional cases of information control in environments with distributed oversight like online enclopedias will be discussed. The research methodology and some of the initial results (including tables of possibly censored articles) will also be presented.

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, was interviewed by Matt Galloway on CBC’s Metro Morning and Doran Barons on Digital Village Radio about the subject matter of his new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace.

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, was interviewed by Richard Solash for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and by Olivia Ward for The Toronto Star.

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, was interviewed by Amanda Lang on CBC News: The National and by Steve Paikan on TVO’s The Agenda about the subject matter of his new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace.

The China Chats keyword list was tested on Sina Weibo four times from Jun to Aug 2013. The data allows us to identify changes in censorship on Sina Weibo over time.