Sochi, Surveillance and Citizen Lab in the news

Date Published

January 29, 2014

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Censorship

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Andrei Soldatov

Th upcoming Sochi Olympics are drawing media attention to the well-documented cyber surveillance system in Russia. The Citizen Lab has been investigating the topic with investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, who was interviewed in various outlets on the subject. Soldatov is the editor of Agentura.ru, a security services watchdog website.

In the Toronto Star, Soldatov said that visitors “should presume that all their communication devices are completely transparent for Russian security services.”

Read more media coverage in Salon, CBC News, Mashable and The Verge.

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