Director Ron Deibert spoke at TEDx Toronto on October 26, 2012 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

The Citizen Lab, Russian secret services watchdog Agentura.Ru, and Privacy International have launched a collaborative project to examine ‘Russia’s Surveillance State.’ As part of this project, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan of Agentura.Ru published a piece in Wired magazine on November 1, 2012, titled The Kremlin’s New Internet Surveillance Plan Goes Live Today.

On September 12-14, 2012, the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the University of Toronto, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) organized a workshop on international cyber norms for the second time at MIT in Cambridge, MA.

Citizen Lab Director was interviewed by The Globe and Mail’s Sophie Cousineau on the cyber arms race, Huawei and cyber security.

Jennie Phillips is a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

On October 11, Harvey Rishikof, the Chair of the ABA Advisory Committee for the Standing Committee on Law and National Security, will discuss how to establish rules of the road for the Internet highway at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

PEN Canada and Citizen Lab are hosting a panel of experts to examine freedom of expression and censorship in the online world.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Brenden Kuerbis wrote an article titled European Privacy Authorities Object to ICANN Whois Proposals for the CircleID news website.

The September 2012 issue of Southeast Asia CyberWatch covers related developments in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

On March 18-19, 2012, the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs convened a public forum entitled What is Stewardship in Cyberspace.