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.

From the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Ghomeshi talked to Soldatov about the surveillance infrastructure Russia set up in anticipation of the Olympic Games.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke about the security challenges governments face in the digital environment.

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.”

Director Ron Deibert was interviewed in The Province ahead of his talk at the University of British Columbia.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed ahead of his lecture at the University of British Columbia’s Cecil Green Park House.

Th upcoming Sochi Olympics are drawing media attention to the well-documented cyber surveillance system in Russia.

Investigative Journalist Andrei Soldatov was invited to make a contribution to an inquiry on the Russian electronic mass surveillance system.

February 28, 2014

Citizen Lab Security Researcher Morgan Marquis-Boire was interviewed about NSA surveillance for Zeit, Germany’s largest weekly paper.