Asia Pacific
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about Xi Jinping’s view on national security.
Senior research associate Emile Dirks spoke with Domino Theory about a new law in China that threatens cross-border legal consequences.
Citizen Lab senior researcher Irene Poetranto writes for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about surveillance in Myanmar.
This event is hosted by the Association for Asian Studies Registration is required On March 13, join senior researcher Irene Poetranto as she speaks on the “Moving Beyond the Given: The Politics of Categories and Subjectivity in Indonesia” panel at the Association for Asian Studies 2026 conference in Vancouver. The discussion will focus on the use […]
Irene Poetranto examines Indonesia’s use of domain name system (DNS) redirection as a method of internet censorship in a new essay published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In Techno-Legal Internet Controls in Indonesia and Their Impact on Free Expression Poetranto explains how DNS redirection, a new type of DNS tampering, was introduced in […]
On June 9, join the Citizen Lab’s Emile Dirks to discuss China’s influence, interference, and repression in Canada.
Our investigation of a spearphishing campaign that targeted senior members of the World Uyghur Congress in March 2025 reveals a highly-customized attack delivery method. The ruse used by attackers replicates a pattern in which threat actors weaponize software and websites aimed at preserving and supporting marginalized and repressed cultures to target those same communities.
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts we determined that the campaign was not only inauthentic, but the information revealed could not have been reasonably sourced from a private individual.
China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot has raised serious privacy concerns. Speaking with Kevin Collier at NBC News, The Citizen Lab’s director, Ron Deibert, remarks that the privacy problems regarding DeepSeek are not limited to Chinese platforms, and that personal information is also used by U.S. artificial intelligence platforms. Read the article here.
Our network security analysis of the popular social media app, RedNote, revealed a number of issues with both the Android and iOS versions of the app.
