Citizen Lab staff and research in the news.
Christopher Parsons was interviewed by a number of media outlets throughout March, focusing on government access to telecommunications data held by private companies, and on companies’ internal data handling practices.
Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jason Q. Ng was quoted in a recent story about Chinese microblogging platform Weibo.
Citizen Lab Senior Security Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire commented on the recent Twitter blocking in Turkey in The Washington Post and the Spanish edition of BBC News.
Citizen Lab Post-doctoral Fellow Chris Parsons was interviewed by a number of media outlets with regard to surveillance and privacy.
An article on commercial spyware in Voice of America cited Citizen Lab research into ‘lawful intercept’ spyware such as FinSpy.
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 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.
Citizen Lab Senior Researcher and Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire was interviewed for Vice’s Motherboard ahead of the RSA Security Conference.
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.
