In the Media
Citizen Lab staff and research in the news.
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.”
Deibert interviewed in The Province and Georgia Straight ahead of UBC talk
Director Ron Deibert was interviewed in The Province ahead of his talk at the University of British Columbia.
Director Ron Deibert interviewed in The Tyee
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed ahead of his lecture at the University of British Columbia’s Cecil Green Park House.
Sochi, Surveillance and Citizen Lab in the news
Th upcoming Sochi Olympics are drawing media attention to the well-documented cyber surveillance system in Russia.
Andrei Soldatov to discuss Russian cyber surveillance at European Parliament Committee meeting
Investigative Journalist Andrei Soldatov was invited to make a contribution to an inquiry on the Russian electronic mass surveillance system.