[Book Launch] Chilling Effects

Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age

Date

March 12, 2026

Time

5:30PM ET

People

This event is hosted by Osgoode Law School

Join Jonathon Penney, Osgoode Law School professor and Citizen Lab senior research fellow, on March 12 for the launch of his new book, Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age. The book advances a new theory of how technology and power create repression and conformity, and provides a roadmap for resisting their weaponization.

Penney will be joined by Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert, senior research associate Kate Robertson, and Washington University Law professor Neil Richards for an insightful discussion on the weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and emerging technologies to repress fundamental rights and democracy.