spyware
Meta’s WhatsApp said it will ask a US court to hold NSO Group in contempt for using WhatsApp to lure targets into downloading the surveillance spyware.
Senior legal advisor Siena Anstis and senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with Forbes about the lagging safeguards that let spyware proliferate.
Senior researcher Luis Fernando García participated in a Conversatorio Regional hosted by CELS, ODIA, Democracia en Red, and Vía Libre.
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert gave a keynote speech about the Greek spyware scandal at an event hosted by Eteron think tank in Athens in May.
This event is hosted by the National Cybersecurity Consortium. Join Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert at the National Cybersecurity Consortium 2026 Conference in Montreal on June 18. He will be speaking on a panel called “Spyware and Safeguards: Surveillance Tech and the Future of Digital Rights,” discussing the risks of the proliferating spyware industry.
Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert recently spoke at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting II on Safeguarding Civil Space in the Digital Age.
The Citizen Lab submitted recommendations to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries.
In June 2023, the Citizen Lab submitted recommendations on combatting mercenary spyware risks to NSICOP.
In an essay for Lawfare, Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert warns that the Trump administration may authorize private firms to undertake offensive cyber operations with major consequences.
Citizen Lab researchers have co-authored two submissions to the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances. One submission focuses on digital tools that enable disappearances, calling on host states to protect against rights violations caused by digital transnational repression. The authors argue that enforced disappearances have been facilitated by […]
