SEP 24 | Surveillance Night Event: “Blow Out” w/ Ron Deibert
Join Citizen Lab founder and director Ron Deibert for a screening of the 1981 film “Blow Out” hosted by the Great Escape Bookstore.
Events
Events involving or organized by the Citizen Lab.
SEP 12 | The Three Faces of Transnational Repression: The Citizen Lab at APSA Annual Meeting
Join the Citizen Lab’s Noura Aljizawi, Gabrielle Lim, and Jon Penney at the American Political Science Association 2025 annual meeting for their presentation of “The Three Faces of Transnational Repression.”
AUG 21 | The Vicious Cycle: Algorithmic Rage Farming, Privatized Subversion, Chilling Effects and the Spread of Authoritarian Practices
On August 21, join Citizen Lab founder and director Ron Deibert as he explores the Lab’s groundbreaking work on digital security, surveillance, and human rights, drawing insights from his book Chasing Shadows.
Chasing Shadows: Chronicles of Counter-Intelligence from the Citizen Lab
On August 6, join Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert for his keynote, “Chasing Shadows: Chronicles of Counter-Intelligence from the Citizen Lab,” at Black Hat 2025.
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.
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 »