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Senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier argue that widely deploying AI surveillance could be corrosive to democracy.
Senior fellow Cynthia Khoo writes that “pillars core to a functioning democracy are [being] reoriented around the false god of AI” in The Walrus.
Citizen Lab senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about chilling effects.
Senior research associate Kate Robertson discusses the risks Bill C-22 poses for future data-sharing agreements with foreign law enforcement agencies.
In an essay for Lawfare, Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert warns that the Trump administration may authorize private firms to undertake offensive cyber operations with major consequences.
In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, Jason Stanley and Ron Deibert write that Mark Carney must emphasize the importance of democratic values on the world stage. “Canada is a healthy, pluralistic, and multicultural democracy,” making it “more essential now than ever that our prime minister stands up for the values our tolerant, multiracial society […]
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert’s new op-ed in the Globe and Mail argues that AI should be subject to more regulation, not less.
In a new piece for Policy Options, senior research associate Kate Robertson and legal extern Song-Ly Tran discuss how outdated protections in Canada’s decades old wiretap laws fail to protect people in Canada from abuse of spyware technologies.
This new piece co-authored by the Citizen Lab’s Gabrielle Lim discusses the risks of privatized space technology. She and her co-authors highlight that the issue is not private-sector involvement, but the concentration of power in the hands of a few private firms that are “incentivized to serve the surveillance state and further a new kind […]
“Transnational repression is a phenomenon that is only growing in scope, scale and sophistication worldwide,” writes Ron Deibert in his new op-ed for the Globe and Mail.