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.

German Deputy Prime Minister Sigmar Gabriel has announced that Germany will cease to export surveillance technology to a group of countries that includes Turkey, on the grounds that this technology is being used as a means to suppress the citizens of these countries.

Citizen Lab’s Morgan Marquis-Boire spoke to Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany’s largest daily paper) about the use of so-called “lawful intercept” technology as tools surveillance.

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.

Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert and Morgan Marquis-Boire spoke at Berlin’s recent Re:Publica conference on technology and culture which drew 6,000 attendees.

Morgan Marquis-Boire’s talk was featured in the Die Zeit (Germany’s largest weekly) and Der Spiegel.

May 8, 2014

Google’s Shane Huntley and Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire co-authored a presentation at BlackHat in Singapore on the targeting of journalists by government surveillance.

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.