On October 22, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will participate in a panel on “Building a Digital Society: Social Media and the Global Public Square” at the 2012 World Congress on Information Technology.

On Wednesday, 10 October, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert will present his lecture, “Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Political Economy of Cyber Security” at Brown University in Providence, RI.

Director Ron Deibert delivered the keynote address at Emerging Cybersecurity Threats: Public Policy and Technology Response event held at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.

Luum is seeking an Online Technology Policy Designer to develop governance models and user policies for their new online platform. The position will be based in Toronto, collocated at the Citizen Lab, at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.

The Citizen Lab has a full-time opening for a Software Developer to engage in software development to support a range of research projects at the intersection of information communications technologies, global security, and human rights.

Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan is taking part in the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).

In the French edition of Slate magazine, Citizen Lab is featured in an article about the Dark Comet software application that has recently been linked to attacks on activists in Syria.

The new book, Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy, features a chapter by Professor Deibert, entitled “International Mechanisms of Cyberspace Controls”.

Citizen Lab Research Manager Masashi Crete-Nishihata participated in a plenary panel at the Seoul International Media Conference where he spoke about the work of the Citizen Lab and the four phases of Internet regulation.