Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Senior Fellow Rafal Rohozinski and Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata have published an article in the February 2012 issue of Security Dialogue titled Cyclones in cyberspace: Information shaping and denial in the 2008 Russia–Georgia war.

Citizen Lab Research Assistant James Tay was interviewed in the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA) Institute publication about his research on the challenges that the government and military face in engaging with cyberspace.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed earlier this week as the Internet briefly went dark in Iran.

On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will deliver a keynote address at the 2012 iConference.

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Helmi Noman was interviewed in an article published as part of the Perugia International Journalism Festival on the activities of the Syrian Electronic Army.

On February 10, 2012, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will guest lecture at Ryerson University’s Infoscape Research Centre for the Study of Social Media. The lecture is titled Cloud protesting. On mobilization in times of social media.

The past two weeks brought several important developments from Google related to online identity. The big story was Google’s revision to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service which will go into effect March 1 and uniformly govern most of Google’s services. This raises a question. By adopting the various policy changes mentioned, does Google now have an ability to evaluate the veracity of user information associated with accounts?

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will be a consultant in new media to the Italian Minister of Education, University and Research, Francesco Profumo.

On Friday, 27 January 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert participated in a panel on the anti-piracy battle of the Internet.

On Friday, January 27, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will join Ontario’s Information & Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian to celebrate International Privacy Day in an event titled Beware of “Surveillance by Design:” Standing Up for Freedom and Privacy.