On October 22, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will participate in a panel on “Building a Digital Society: Social Media and the Global Public Square” at the 2012 World Congress on Information Technology.

On Wednesday, 10 October, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will present his lecture, “Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Political Economy of Cyber Security” at Brown University in Providence, RI.

On October 12, 2012, Director Ron Deibert will address the policy conference organised by the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will be a panelist on the “Bringing Human Rights into ICANN’s Policy Development Process” session.

Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy gave a presentation during this year’s SecTor Conference in Toronto, Canada, which took place from 1-3 October, 2012.

Professor Ron Deibert spoke to Nora Young on CBC Radio’s Spark about Iranian Internet controls and the creation of a “national Internet”.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan is taking part in the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

In the French edition of Slate magazine, Citizen Lab is featured in an article about the Dark Comet software application that has recently been linked to attacks on activists in Syria.

Citizen Lab Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata participated in a plenary panel at the Seoul International Media Conference where he spoke about the work of the Citizen Lab and the four phases of Internet regulation.

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman submitted a chapter entitled “In the Name of God: Faith-based Internet Censorship in Majority Muslim Countries” for inclusion in the Routledge Handbook of Media Law to be published in December 2012.

Luis Horacio Nájera spoke about the youth movement known as YoSoy132 and their activities during the presidential campaign.