Voice of America covers Citizen Lab research
An article on commercial spyware in Voice of America cited Citizen Lab research into ‘lawful intercept’ spyware such as FinSpy.
In the Media
Citizen Lab staff and research in the news.
Research Fellow Bill Marczak helps PI and Ethiopean refugee’s claim to UK government
Citizen Lab’s Bill Marczak helped Privacy International scan Ethiopian refugee Tadesse Biru Kersmo’s computer, and they found traces that showed FinSpy had been operating in June 2012 over two days while he was in the UK.
Special Advisor Robert Guerra interviewed by Wilton Park
Special Advisor Robert Guerra was interviewed for Wilton Park on the nature of power. Guerra spoke about what power currently looks like and how is it changing in the world.
Morgan Marquis-Boire interviewed for Vice’s Motherboard
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher and Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire was interviewed for Vice’s Motherboard ahead of the RSA Security Conference.
Jason Q. Ng in The Wall Street Journal
Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jason Q. Ng wrote a piece in The Wall Street Journal about the alleged China-related censorship on the international version of Bing.com, the search engine operated by Microsoft.
Andrei Soldatov and Morgan Marquis-Boire quoted in The New Yorker
Andrei Soldatov and Morgan Marquis-Boire were interviewed for a New Yorker article on the surveillance in Sochi and the state of surveillance in Russia.
Andrei Soldatov interviewed on Q with Jian Ghomeshi
From the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Ghomeshi talked to Soldatov about the surveillance infrastructure Russia set up in anticipation of the Olympic Games.
Ron Deibert interviewed on VICE
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke about the security challenges governments face in the digital environment.
Snowden documents reveal CSEC used airport Wi-fi to track Canadians (updated)
A top secret document leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that “Canada’s electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal.”