Snigdha Basu

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New Opportunity: Communications Coordinator

The Communications Coordinator will work closely with the Citizen Lab’s communications specialist, website and communications officer, and other Citizen Lab staff to support the communications activities of the Citizen Lab. This position will also liaise as necessary with the communications teams at Munk and the wider University community.

Citizen Lab on Jamal Khashoggi widow suing spyware firm NSO Group: CBC Radio- As It Happens with Nil Köksal, Chris Howden

In an interview with As It Happens with Nil Köksal, Chris Howden on CBC Radio, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert discussed Jamal Khashoggi’s widow Hanan Elatr’s lawsuit against Israeli spyware company NSO. Hanan Elatr Khashoggi claimed in a civil lawsuit lodged with the Northern District of Virginia that NSO “intentionally targeted” her devices and “caused… Read more »

Systems and Security Technical Lead

Citizen Lab is looking for a Manager, Information System Security who will be responsible for working with Information Technology staff and resources at the Citizen Lab and the wider University to minimize the risk of compromising information, data, servers, and server-based applications.

FAQ: A comparison of search censorship in China

We discovered over 60,000 unique censorship rules used to partially or totally censor search results across eight China-accessible search platforms analyzed. These findings call into question the ability of non-Chinese technology companies to better resist censorship demands than their Chinese counterparts.

Information Controls Fellowship Program 2023

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) fosters research, outputs, and creative collaboration on repressive Internet censorship and surveillance issues. The program supports examination into how governments in countries, regions, or areas of OTF’s core focus are restricting the free flow of information, cutting access to the open Internet, and… Read more »