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Citizen Lab's latest research publications.

Release: DIY Transparency Report Tool

The DIY Transparency Report tool helps smaller organizations produce holistic transparency reports. Such reports comprehensively explain to customers, citizens, and government agencies alike how an organization can, and does, receive and respond to government requests. It does so by guiding organizational members through the process of developing a holistic report, while empowering them to customize their reports to reflect their organizational profile.

Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use

In “Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use,” Citizen Lab Research Fellow Jon Penney analyzes the fall of traffic to Wikipedia articles about terror groups and their techniques after the Snowden revelations.

Between Hong Kong and Burma: Tracking UP007 and SLServer Espionage Campaigns

In this research note, we analyze a malware campaign targeting Hong Kong democracy activists. Two new malware families are used in the campaign that we name UP007 and SLServer. Previous reports have shown overlap in the tactics, tools, and procedures used in this campaign in other operations targeting groups in Burma, Hong Kong, and the Tibetan community.

QQ浏览器存在的隐私与安全隐患

多伦多大学公民实验室的最新报告揭露了QQ浏览器存在的多处隐私与安全问题。QQ浏览器是一款由中国网络巨头腾讯开发的移动浏览器,而这些问题很可能会将数以百万的用户至于严峻的风险中。