Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke with The Globe and Mail’s telecom reporter Christine Dobby about recent issues related to the privacy of telecommunications customers’ personal information.

Citizen Lab Post-doctoral fellow Christopher Parsons and Cyber Stewards Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte and Hisham Almiraat are some of the experts quoted in the press release.

Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy Seth Hardy was interviewed on CBC’s Day 6 radio programme about Remote Administration Tools, RATS, programs that can allow a hacker to take total control of any computer.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Citizen Lab’s Chris Parsons announced they are suing the crown in the Ontario Superior Court.

Citizen Lab Post-doctoral Fellow Christopher Parsons was interviewed on CBC News on 8 May about state cyber surveillance in Canada.

German Deputy Prime Minister Sigmar Gabriel has announced that Germany will cease to export surveillance technology to a group of countries that includes Turkey, on the grounds that this technology is being used as a means to suppress the citizens of these countries.

Citizen Lab’s Morgan Marquis-Boire spoke to Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany’s largest daily paper) about the use of so-called “lawful intercept” technology as tools surveillance.

In 2012, together with Eva Galperin from the EFF, Citizen Lab researchers Morgan Marquis-Boire and Seth Hardy identified the use of BlackShades in the targeting of opposition forces in Syria. This work has been featured in the recent coverage of the world wide “BlackShades busts” by the Washington Post, the Daily Beast, The Telegraph, and ThreatPost.

Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert and Morgan Marquis-Boire spoke at Berlin’s recent Re:Publica conference on technology and culture which drew 6,000 attendees.

Morgan Marquis-Boire’s talk was featured in the Die Zeit (Germany’s largest weekly) and Der Spiegel.

Google’s Shane Huntley and Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire co-authored a presentation at BlackHat in Singapore on the targeting of journalists by government surveillance.

Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra was interviewed about Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) turning over a set of domain management functions to the Internet’s stakeholder community.