Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert joined CBC’s The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti to talk about the idea of a digital bill of rights, the recent Snowden revelations, and his new book, Black Code.

Former Citizen Lab security researcher and member of our technical advisory group, Nart Villeneuve, is part of a team that uncovered a malware campaign targeting European diplomats and foreign ministries.

On 4 December, the Citizen Lab and Professor Ron Deibert were profiled in a piece on Toronto’s innovative cyber security and 3D printing sectors.

Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jason Q. Ng published a piece in The Atlantic on 27 November. Titled, “How Tech Companies Can Help Overcome Chinese Censorship”, the piece looks at companies facilitating censorship in China.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert’s book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, made the long list for the 2014 British Colombia National Non-Fiction award.

Citizen Lab Special Advisor Robert Guerra shared his views on the IGF 2013 in a piece by Monika Ermert published in Internet Policy Journal.

From 22 – 25 October 2013, over 2,000 government, civil society and private sector delegates from around the world gathered in Bali, Indonesia for the 8th Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2013).

Marczak is a Computer Science PhD student at UC Berkeley working on developing new languages, abstractions, and tools for distributed programming. He is also a founding member of Bahrain Watch, a monitoring and advocacy group that seeks to promote effective, accountable, and transparent governance in Bahrain through research and evidence-based activism.

Scott-Railton was part of the “Emerging Bad Actors in the Virtual and Physical Worlds” panel alongside Jeffrey Carr, Moderator with Dr. David Kilcullen, Jonathan Hutson, Thomas Dzieran, Aaron Weisburd, and Peter Mattis.

In his lecture, Professor Deibert put the NSA revelations in a broader context, emphasizing the political economy of the cyber security industrial complex and its unintended consequences in a world of Big Data.