In many countries, laws against cybercrime are being weaponized to repress journalism. Speaking to the Columbia Journalism Review, Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Gabrielle Lim warns that democratic countries passing similar laws could provide cover to repressive authoritarian regimes. “Unfortunately, most of the laws being passed will have little effect in actually curbing misinformation, but instead […]
Canada’s Bill C-8 (formerly Bill C-26) is proposed cybersecurity legislation that would introduce broad information collection and sharing powers, including the warrantless collection of information from telecommunication providers, and could also undermine encryption and communications security. In a brief submitted by the Citizen Lab to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) of Bill […]
Wolfie Christl
Wolfie Christl is a public-interest technologist, researcher, policy analyst, and digital rights activist. A communication engineer by profession, he studied (but did not complete degrees in) sociology and computer science. Until 2006, he was part of Public Netbase, a digital art platform and early hackerspace in Vienna. In 2012, he co-founded Cracked Labs,
Moses Karanja
Moses Njoroge Karanja is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a research affiliate with the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. His research interest is on the relationship between technological change and international order evolution.
Aaron Gluck-Thaler
Aaron Gluck-Thaler is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, where he holds the Professorship in Data Sciences.
Todd Steward
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