Student Supervision Students interested in undergraduate and graduate opportunities to study with Professor Deibert should refer to his student supervision page. Courses Professor Deibert is currently teaching two courses: POL106H: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy: Democracy in the Social Media Age Term: Winter Program: Political Science Undergraduate Social media is the predominant means by which most… Read more »
Citizen Lab joined a global coalition of NGOs to call for the withdrawal of censorship plans in Pakistan.
This post is the first in a series of analyses that the Citizen Lab is preparing regarding the urgent and ongoing threat presented by information operations deployed against Tibetans and others who advocate for Tibetan rights and freedoms, including in Tibetan areas of China.
On February 10, 2012, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will guest lecture at Ryerson University’s Infoscape Research Centre for the Study of Social Media. The lecture is titled Cloud protesting. On mobilization in times of social media.
On Friday, January 27, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will join Ontario’s Information & Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian to celebrate International Privacy Day in an event titled Beware of “Surveillance by Design:” Standing Up for Freedom and Privacy.
On January 24, 2012, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert was interviewed by the Toronto Star regarding Iranian government’s increased censorship of the Internet.
Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan attended the 28th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (28C3). The Congress is a four-day event on technology, society and utopia organised by the Chaos Computing Club (CCC).
In response to the open call of the newly-established United Nations Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises for input regarding the Working Group’s key thematic priorities and activities, the Citizen Lab submitted its views on the urgent need for greater assessment of and guidance surrounding the surveillance and Internet filtering technology sector.
The Citizen Lab is proud to participate in the Google Policy Fellowship for the fourth time next summer. In June 2012, a Google Policy fellowship based at the Citizen Lab will be be offered to a student who is passionate about technology and Internet policy. Applications are due by February 3, 2012 by midnight Pacific time. For more information see the Google Policy Fellowship site.
The Citizen Lab currently has an opening for a full-time technical researcher to be based at the University of Toronto. The incumbent will provide technical and analytical support for research projects on Internet censorship, surveillance, cyber security and attacks (e.g. denial-of-service attacks, malware, etc), and related topics.
