Citizen Lab Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire will be at the 5th International Panel on Cyber Security. The conference is taking place on 28-29 January 2013 in Lille, France.

This year-end report summarizes several trends and noteworthy happenings of the past 12 months, including an increase in government user data requests, a community governance decision-making debacle, and controversies around various privacy-oriented technical implementations.

Our assessment of events that took place in 2012 has found that freedom of expression continues to be under threat in these parts of the world, although some progress has been made in certain countries. This review discusses trends in cyber attacks, changing legal norms, social media use, technological development, censorship and filtering, and arrests of rights activists.

Citizen Lab Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire gave a plenary talk at the State Surveillance And Human Rights Camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 13.

On Tuesday, January 15 at 12:30pm ET, Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jon Penney will speak at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke to Me Judice, a Dutch discussion forum, about new security issues in cyberspace.

Seth Hardy was interviewed in a piece about the use of smartphones in cybercrime.

Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra and Post-Doctoral Fellow Brenden Kuerbis represented the Citizen Lab at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 6-9 November, 2012.

SCMagazine has named Morgan Marquis-Boire on its honorable mention list of Influential IT security minds in 2012.

John Scott-Railton is conducting research in collaboration with the Citizen Lab on electronic attacks against opposition groups and the media in Libya and Syria.