Deibert was joined by Omar El Akkad, Technology reporter at the Globe and Mail and Mornay Walters, Chief Executive Officer of Seecrypt Group, a maker of secure communications software for mobile devices.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Special Advisor Robert Guerra and Post-doctoral Fellow Christopher Parsons were listed as one of CIC’s “2014 Canadian Foreign Policy Twitterati”.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke about the security challenges governments face in the digital environment.
A top secret document leaked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden and obtained by CBC News shows that “Canada’s electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC), used information from the free internet service at a major Canadian airport to track the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary airline passengers for days after they left the terminal.”
Director Ron Deibert was interviewed in The Province ahead of his talk at the University of British Columbia.
