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 Director Ron Deibert was interviewed by Patrick McGuire, the managing editor for VICE Canada on 7 May.

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

Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jason Q. Ng was in Brooklyn and NYC in April to present his research on media censorship in China.

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Citizen Lab Research Fellow Tim Maurer has joined the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG), a research advisory network.

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.