Citizen Lab Research Fellow Luis Horacio Najera’s commentary was featured in today’s Globe and Mail about World Press Freedom Day.

On 23-26 April 2012, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Eneken Tikk attended the Sixth Forum on Partnership of State Authorities, Civil Society and the Business Community in Ensuring Information Security and Combating Terrorism.

The Marketplace Tech Report episode looked at President Obama’s executive order authorizing sanctions for human rights abuses that will target countries that monitor and track cell phones and citizens’ browsing habits.

From 18-19 April 2012, Citizen Lab Special Advisor Robert Guerra and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune attended the Stockholm Internet Forum.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan was interviewed about her new role as consultant in new media to the Italian Minister of Education, University and Research, Francesco Profumo.

In a recent special feature on Internet censorship, The Guardian newspaper profiled the work of the OpenNet Initiative.

Citizen Lab joined a global coalition of NGOs to call for the withdrawal of censorship plans in Pakistan.

Source: Elinor Mills, CNET

In December 1998, a U.S.-based hacker group called Legions of the Underground declared cyberwar on Iraq and China and prepared to protest human rights abuses in those countries by disrupting their Internet access.

On Friday, 16 March the ICANN Board appointed Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra to the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan gave a talk on cloud protesting at the Unlike Us 2, Social Media Activism and the Critique of Liberation Technology conference at the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.