April 30, 2014

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.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Special Advisor Robert Guerra and Post-doctoral Fellow Christopher Parsons were listed as one of CIC’s “2014 Canadian Foreign Policy Twitterati”.

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.

June 16, 2014

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 is one of seven nonprofit organizations around the world to receive the 2014 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

Soldatov and Borogan have been investigating the Russian surveillance state as part of a joint project by Aventura.ru, the Citizen Lab and Privacy International.

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.”