Citizen Lab Director was interviewed by The Globe and Mail’s Sophie Cousineau on the cyber arms race, Huawei and cyber security.

This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, blogger and netizen arrests, cyber attacks, and more.

Jennie Phillips is a PhD student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

On October 22, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will participate in a panel on “Building a Digital Society: Social Media and the Global Public Square” at the 2012 World Congress on Information Technology.

On Wednesday, 10 October, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will present his lecture, “Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Political Economy of Cyber Security” at Brown University in Providence, RI.

On October 12, 2012, Director Ron Deibert will address the policy conference organised by the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will be a panelist on the “Bringing Human Rights into ICANN’s Policy Development Process” session.

On October 11, Harvey Rishikof, the Chair of the ABA Advisory Committee for the Standing Committee on Law and National Security, will discuss how to establish rules of the road for the Internet highway at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

PEN Canada and Citizen Lab are hosting a panel of experts to examine freedom of expression and censorship in the online world.

This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch covers topics such as censorship and filtering, cyber attacks and technology.

Senior Security Analyst Seth Hardy gave a presentation during this year’s SecTor Conference in Toronto, Canada, which took place from 1-3 October, 2012.