spyware
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 […]
Citizen Lab senior researcher Bill Marczak served as a key witness in a UK ruling that ordered Saudi Arabia to pay £3m to a London dissident who was targeted with Pegasus spyware. In 2018, Citizen Lab researchers discovered that a Saudi operator called KINGDOM was targeting dissidents abroad with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Saudi activist and […]
Citizen Lab senior legal advisor Siena Anstis co-authored an article with Jillian Sprenger (McGill University) in the International Journal of Human Rights on the ways that members of civil society targeted by spyware attempt to seek remedy. Anstis and Sprenger analyze gaps and challenges that remain in obtaining a remedy for targets, suggesting areas for reform through which members […]
NSO Group, the firm behind Pegasus spyware, has a new executive chairman who plans to use his ties to the Trump administration to improve the company’s reputation in the U.S. Speaking with the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian, Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton says that Pegasus creates “unbearable temptation for abuse” where “nobody […]