The Citizen Lab is proud to participate in the Google Policy Fellowship for the fourth time next summer. In June 2012, a Google Policy fellowship based at the Citizen Lab will be be offered to a student who is passionate about technology and Internet policy. Applications are due by February 3, 2012 by midnight Pacific time. For more information see the Google Policy Fellowship site.

The Citizen Lab currently has an opening for a full-time technical researcher to be based at the University of Toronto. The incumbent will provide technical and analytical support for research projects on Internet censorship, surveillance, cyber security and attacks (e.g. denial-of-service attacks, malware, etc), and related topics.

Canada Centre Senior Fellow Marc Goodman was interviewed by the Washington Post.

Source: The Toronto Star

Citizen Lab Senior Advisor Robert Guerra was interviewed in the Toronto Star about the newly released .XXX domains available for purchase.

On Monday, December 5, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Senior Scholar Rafal Rohozinski and Jesse Hirsh, a Toronto-based Internet strategist, researcher and broadcaster will be participating in The Couchiching Institute roundtable.

One year ago, on November 28, 2010, five major newspapers including The New York Times and The Guardian simultaneously published the first 220 of 251,287 confidential US diplomatic cables collected by the whistle-blower organization known as WikiLeaks. Many things have changed since then, including our perception of hacktivism and of its role in the cyberpower game.

Citizen Lab is pleased to welcome Dr. Eneken Tikk-Ringas as Citizen Lab and Canada Centre Post-Doctoral Fellow.

On Wednesday, November 30, 1-3 PM, Canada Centre Senior Fellow in Future Crime Marc Goodman will be presenting a talk titled, The Future of Crime, at the University of Toronto’s George Ignatieff Theatre, Trinity College 15 Devonshire Place Toronto, ON M5S 1H8 (map). He was interviewed recently by Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert.

Citizen Lab Senior Analytics and Visualization Developer Greg Wiseman Attended the EU Hackathon as a representative of the Citizen Lab and OpenNet Initiative. Developers from 17 different countries had 23 hours to create projects meant to raise awareness of issues regarding Internet quality, censorship, and transparency.

Citizen Lab’s new report, The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada was featured in numerous media, including the Globe and Mail.