Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed on The Current by Anna Maria Tremonti regarding the latest issue of Google’s Transparency Report.

In the June 19 2012 issue of the World Politics Review, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert explores the role of Big Data and the growing political importance of the corporate giants that own and operate cyberspace.

The Dublin Conference on Internet Freedom will offer an opportunity to explore key issues related to Internet Freedom.

Eneken Tikk spoke about the diplomatic impact of the Flame virus as well as the group of nations led by China, Russia and several Middle Eastern countries that are seeking to influence operational control of the Internet.

“Thanks to Stuxnet, the Internet Freedom agenda, and the Arab Spring, cyberspace is now political space and matters a great deal in international relations,” writes Chris Bronk, Fellow in Information Technology Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University.

In a post, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Eneken Tikk reflects on the US-Yemen cyber war panic after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference Dinner.

Citizen Lab Fellow Jon Penney writes that “among certain national-security and public-policy circles, there is a growing trend to approach the challenges of cyber-security and cyber-war through the lens of the Cold War.”

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will present three papers at the annual conference of the International Communication Association in Phoenix, Arizona on 24-28 May 2012.

On 24 and 25 May 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will participate in the University of Calgary’s Cyber Conference, “Nobody Knows Anything: Canada’s Cyber Insecurities”.