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Cloud protesting: Dissent in times of social media

In a new blog post, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan argues that as a result of the diffusion of social media, we have now entered the age of cloud protesting, where individuals and networked collective action have taken central stage.

Sarah McKune joins the Citizen Lab as Senior Researcher

We are pleased to announce that Sarah McKune has joined the Citizen Lab as Senior Researcher. Sarah will be working on the Lab’s comparative analysis of targeted malware attacks on human rights organizations, as well as research and analysis of international cyber security initiatives and related issues.

The rise of crime-sourcing

Source: Marc Goodman, Forbes

Marc Goodman, the Canada Centre and Citizen Lab Senior Fellow in Future Crime, writes in Forbes magazine about the growing popularity of crowdsourcing by international organized crime groups and local neighborhood thugs.