Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra has been invited by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator Larry Strickling and Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy Ambassador Phil Verveer to participate in a discussion of global Internet governance issues.

On 23-26 April 2012, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Eneken Tikk attended the Sixth Forum on Partnership of State Authorities, Civil Society and the Business Community in Ensuring Information Security and Combating Terrorism.

The Marketplace Tech Report episode looked at President Obama’s executive order authorizing sanctions for human rights abuses that will target countries that monitor and track cell phones and citizens’ browsing habits.

From 18-19 April 2012, Citizen Lab Special Advisor Robert Guerra and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune attended the Stockholm Internet Forum.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan was interviewed about her new role as consultant in new media to the Italian Minister of Education, University and Research, Francesco Profumo.

In a recent special feature on Internet censorship, The Guardian newspaper profiled the work of the OpenNet Initiative.

Citizen Lab joined a global coalition of NGOs to call for the withdrawal of censorship plans in Pakistan.

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Sarah McKune attended the Conference on China and Cybersecurity hosted by the Naval War College and the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation in UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

At the 2012 International Studies Assocation Convention in San Diego, California, Citizen Lab Director Ronald Deibert is organizing a panel on Comparative Cyber Security Strategies: Theory and Practice.

Source: Elinor Mills, CNET

In December 1998, a U.S.-based hacker group called Legions of the Underground declared cyberwar on Iraq and China and prepared to protest human rights abuses in those countries by disrupting their Internet access.