Citizen Lab’s experts comment on Heartbleed bug
Citizen Lab Senior Security Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire was interviewed for a piece in Wired magazine on Heartbleed, “a bug in the internet’s infrastructure that some are calling the worse thing they’ve seen in years.”
New Laws In Uganda Restrict Citizens’ Rights
The Anti-Pornography Act 2014, the Public Order Management Act 2013, the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2014, the 2014 Press and Journalist regulations and the Non Government Organisation (NGO) Amendment bill have been criticised for creating unwarranted restrictions to liberties granted by the country’s 1995 constitution.
Citizen Lab collaborates with Human Rights Watch on Internet censorship testing in Ethiopia
Citizen Lab has collaborated with Human Rights Watch to document Internet censorship in Ethiopia.
Christopher Parsons on privacy of Canadians’ communications data
Christopher Parsons was interviewed by a number of media outlets throughout March, focusing on government access to telecommunications data held by private companies, and on companies’ internal data handling practices.
Ron Deibert joins privacy debate at the Globe and Mail
Deibert was joined by Omar El Akkad, Technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and Mornay Walters, Chief Executive Officer of Seecrypt Group, a maker of secure communications software for mobile devices.
Morgan Marquis-Boire joins Freedom of the Press Foundation Advisory Board
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire has been invited to join the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s new Technical Advisory Board.
Jon Penney authors op-ed in Toronto Star
Penney writes about how the Fair Elections Act will make it even easier for Canadian political parties to access our personal information and undermine democracy.