Op-ed
In the June 19 2012 issue of the World Politics Review, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert explores the role of Big Data and the growing political importance of the corporate giants that own and operate cyberspace.
“Thanks to Stuxnet, the Internet Freedom agenda, and the Arab Spring, cyberspace is now political space and matters a great deal in international relations,” writes Chris Bronk, Fellow in Information Technology Policy at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University.
In a post, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Eneken Tikk reflects on the US-Yemen cyber war panic after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference Dinner.
Citizen Lab Fellow Jon Penney writes that “among certain national-security and public-policy circles, there is a growing trend to approach the challenges of cyber-security and cyber-war through the lens of the Cold War.”
Citizen Lab Research Fellow Luis Horacio Najera’s commentary was featured in today’s Globe and Mail about World Press Freedom Day.
Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert published an article titled Big Data Meets Big Brother.
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 Director Ron Deibert wrote an article in the recent G-20 Research Group publication, which discusses the impact of an increase in “cloud computing” on issues of policing, privacy and human rights.
Source: Marc Goodman, Forbes
Marc Goodman, the Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Senior Fellow in Future Crime, writes in Forbes magazine about the growing popularity of crowdsourcing by international organized crime groups and local neighborhood thugs.
In a new article for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, Director Ron Deibert writes about the rise of Asia’s cyberspace.