Google’s announcement Tuesday that it might pull out of the Chinese market has cast a sharp focus on long-standing accusations about the shadowy world of Chinese hackers. Since at least 2002, human rights activists have accused the Chinese government and military of infiltrating their computers as well as those maintained by private companies and nongovernmental… Read more »

A basement in the gray, Gothic heart of the University of Toronto is home to the CSI of cyberspace. “We are doing free expression forensics,” says Ronald Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab, based at the Munk Centre for International Studies. Deibert and his team of academics and students investigate in real time governments and… Read more »

Director Ron Deibert gave a talk titled “The global battle for the future of cyberspace” in Den Haag (The Hague), Netherlands, on 22 November at 3 PM. Deibert spoke alongside Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament, and William H. Dutton, a Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford…. Read more »

Research Reports Cooper Quintin, Rebekah Brown, and John Scott-Railton. “Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed,” Citizen Lab Report No. 181, University of Toronto, December 5, 2024. Noura Aljizawi, Siena Anstis, Marcus Michaelsen, Veronica Arroyo, Shaila Baran, Maria Bikbulatova, Gözde Böcü, Camila Franco, Arzu Geybulla, Muetter Iliqud,… Read more »