Citizen Lab Research Fellow Tim Maurer has joined the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG), a research advisory network.

Citizen Lab’s Irene Poetranto authored an op-ed on the blocking of Vimeo, a video-sharing site, in Indonesia.

Today, the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) launches The State of Internet Freedoms in East Africa research report which is an Investigation into the policies and practices defining internet freedom in East Africa.

The trajectories of the U.S. and Chinese governments on cyber security have officially diverged with the May 19 unsealing of an indictment against five Chinese nationals accused of cyber espionage against U.S. companies.

In 2012, together with Eva Galperin from the EFF, Citizen Lab researchers Morgan Marquis-Boire and Seth Hardy identified the use of BlackShades in the targeting of opposition forces in Syria. This work has been featured in the recent coverage of the world wide “BlackShades busts” by the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, The Telegraph, and ThreatPost.

On 11 April, Research Fellow John Scott-Railton gave a presentation on humanitarianism in the age of cyberwarfare at the ICT Humanitarian Forum in Luxembourg.

Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra was interviewed about Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) turning over a set of domain management functions to the Internet’s stakeholder community.

The Citizen Lab’s Cyber Stewards Network (CSN) was featured in the 2014 Asia Research News magazine, an annual publication highlighting interesting on-going research in universities and research institutions in Asia.

In this post we explain how Canadians can issue requests to their telecommunications companies to learn what personal information those companies collect, retain, and disclose about them. We argue that Canadians should do this both to empower themselves and to enable Canadian policy experts and government officials to better hold the companies to account.

Ron Deibert was interviewed by Amanda Lang on CBC’s Lang & O’Leary Exchange about what’s changed with regard to online privacy since Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA.