A new article in Wired magazine as part of the joint project by Privacy International, Agentura.Ru and the Citizen Lab on Russia’s surveillance state.

Authored by Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Black Code lifts the lid on cyberspace and shows what’s at stake for Internet users and citizens. This book will be released on 21 May 2013.

Jason Q. Ng is a graduate student in East Asian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Blocked on Weibo, a book about censorship and sensitive topics in Chinese social media.

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman spoke to media this week about the Syrian Electronic Army and the latest hacking of the Associated Press’ verified Twitter account.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke about how repressive governments around the world have been getting assistance from Western technology companies.

The 2013 Munk School Graduate Student Conference, A World In Flux, asked participants to think through the mobility of conflict in new ways.

Privacy International have filed an application for judicial review of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) refusal to release information about the potentially unlawful export of Gamma International’s FinFisher surveillance technology.

Titled, “Internet Security and Networked Governance in International Relations”, the paper asks whether the Internet’s heavy reliance on nonhierarchical, networked forms of governance is compatible with growing concerns about cyber-security from traditional state actors.

Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Fellow John Sheldon was at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Space Security Conference 2013 in Geneva.

Stefania Milan has co-authored an article with Arne Hintz, titled “Networked Collective Action and the Institutionalized Policy Debate: Bringing Cyberactivism to the Policy Arena?”,