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Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. One submission focuses on digital tools that enable disappearances, calling on host states to protect against rights violations caused by digital transnational repression. The authors argue that enforced disappearances have been facilitated by […]
In October 2025, Citizen Lab researchers and director Ron Deibert signed an open letter to the Canadian Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and the Minister of Industry rejecting the “National Sprint” on AI strategy and announcing a then-forthcoming independent “People’s Consultation on AI.” The independent consultation is now accepting submissions until March 15, […]
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 spoke with the Walrus about Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon’s 30-day “national sprint” to inform Canada’s approach to AI development. Deibert opted not to participate in the government process. “I don’t want to lend credibility to such flawed processes by participating,” he said, citing a need […]
Chasing Shadows, the best-selling book by Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert, is now out in paperback form on the one-year anniversary of its launch. This edition includes a new afterword describing “the disturbing descent into techno-fascism” that Deibert witnessed during his travels to the US in spring 2025, and includes an endorsement by Canadian novelist […]
