Senior research fellow Jon Penney spoke with Michael Geist on the Law Bytes podcast about his new book.
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert recently spoke on All Things Considered about the Lab’s new investigation of Webloc, a geolocation surveillance system.
A group of 25 rights and privacy organizations and experts delivered an open letter to Parliament calling for the full withdrawal of Bill C-22.
Join the Citizen Lab at RightsCon this year from May 5-8 in Lusaka, Zambia.
In collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), we identified two distinct actors aligned with the People’s Republic of China that have been targeting and impersonating journalists and civil society. Our findings provide insight into the Chinese government’s practice of digital transnational repression and its shift to a system of state-sponsored attacks carried out by private contractors.
The Edmonton Police Service is trialing new bodycam facial recognition technology to identify what they have deemed “high-risk offenders.” Speaking to the CBC, senior research associate Kate Robertson says, “As someone who has been studying algorithmic policing technologies for nearly a decade, and [previously] a lawyer in Canada’s justice system, I have to say that […]
Research FAQ for the report “Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors”
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.
Senior researcher Noura Aljizawi spoke to WIRED about a hack that revealed Syria’s fragile cybersecurity.
Join senior researcher Noura Aljizawi at the inaugural Ottawa Civic Space Summit on April 21.
