Visiting Fellow Rex Hughes was a witness at the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee meeting in the Senate on 5 February, 2014.

Phillipa Gill, former post-doctoral fellow at the Citizen Lab and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, has been selected to receive a 2014 Early Career Award from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program in the amount of $514,000.

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher and Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire was interviewed for Vice’s Motherboard ahead of the RSA Security Conference.

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.