Canada’s Secret Wars: Cold War Spies to Digital Surveillance with Ron Deibert & Donald Mahar
On June 28, join Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert, author of Chasing Shadows, for this book talk at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.
Events
Events involving or organized by the Citizen Lab.
A Trip to Ancient BABYLON: Unearthing a 2017 Pegasus Persistence Exploit
On June 29 at REcon, Citizen Lab senior researcher Bill Marczak and co-presenter Daniel Roethlisberger will recount how they discovered a Pegasus exploit targeting iOS 10 devices back in 2017. They will describe their investigation, analyze the root cause of the vulnerability, detail how the exploit leveraged the vulnerability to gain code execution after boot, and explain how the vulnerability was mitigated.
The PRC Transnational Repression Efforts: Influence, Interference, and Legitimacy
On June 9, join the Citizen Lab’s Emile Dirks to discuss China’s influence, interference, and repression in Canada.
Book Talks for Chasing Shadows: March Events
Join The Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert virtually or in person at one of these upcoming events to celebrate the release of his new book Chasing Shadows: Cyberespionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy. Event dates March 10, San Francisco Hosted by City Lights Bookstore Get tickets March 15, Vancouver Hosted by the Vancouver… Read more »
Online Presentation of No Escape – Tackling Gender-Based Digital Transnational Repression: March 24, 10 am ET
Join us on March 24, 2025, for a virtual presentation and Q&A on the gendered dimension of digital transnational repression. The Citizen Lab’s Siena Anstis, Noura Aljizawi, and Marcus Michaelsen will share key findings from their December 2024 report, “No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression,” followed by a… Read more »
Citizen Lab researchers at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei
RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, is just around the corner and will be held in Taipei, Taiwan and online from February 24–27, 2025. Researchers from The Citizen Lab are scheduled to speak in a series of discussions, panels, and workshops at RightsCon addressing some of the most urgent… Read more »
Keynote Session by Kate Robertson at the 2024 APSIM Conference
We are thrilled to announce that Kate Robertson, Lawyer and senior research associate at the Citizen Lab will deliver a keynote at the upcoming Access, Privacy, Security, and Information Management Conference (APSIM). In her keynote, titled “In the World of Privacy Regulation, What’s the Constitution got to do with it?” Kate will take a behind-the-scenes… Read more »
Irene Poetranto on the panel “What the World Can Learn from Indonesia’s Democracy”
On November 14, 2024, The Citizen Lab’s Irene Poetranto will participate in the panel “What the World Can Learn from Indonesia’s Democracy” hosted by the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
The Citizen Lab at the Hague Program’s 2024 Conference on International Cyber Security
On November 13, 2024, The Citizen Lab’s director Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote titled “Digital parasites: Mapping the new frontiers of espionage, subversion, and Dark PR” at The Hague Program’s 2024 Conference on International Cyber Security. Visit the The Hague Program to learn more.
The Citizen Lab at Regardless of Frontiers: First Amendment & Exchange of Ideas Across Borders
The Citizen Lab’s director Ron Deibert is presenting a paper, co-authored with senior legal researcher Siena Anstis, at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University’s event Regardless of Frontiers: First Amendment & Exchange of Ideas Across Borders.