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Citizen Lab senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier wrote an op-ed in The Conversation about chilling effects.
Senior research fellow Jon Penney spoke with Michael Geist on the Law Bytes podcast about his new book.
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 […]
Jon Penney, research fellow at The Citizen Lab and an associate professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, writes an insightful opinion piece in the Globe and Mail critiquing U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to delay the enforcement of the TikTok ban. Penney argues that Trump’s executive order is legally flawed […]
The submission reviews Citizen Lab research on the use of private surveillance technology against human rights actors, describes some of the common practices of concern among private companies in the surveillance industry, and proposes a set of recommendations for the path forward.
