surveillance
Citizen Lab research fellow Wolfie Christl spoke with Der Standard about the Austrian Interior Ministry’s €900K investment in Tangles, a surveillance software that gathers and analyzes data from across social media and the web. Christl and a Citizen Lab colleague discovered that the tool was purchased by the Austrian ministry last summer. Experts are concerned […]
This event is hosted by the Association for Asian Studies Registration is required On March 13, join senior researcher Irene Poetranto as she speaks on the “Moving Beyond the Given: The Politics of Categories and Subjectivity in Indonesia” panel at the Association for Asian Studies 2026 conference in Vancouver. The discussion will focus on the use […]
On November 12, Citizen Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton will partake in the panel titled “From Stasi to Spyware: Old Tactics, New Technology” at Berlin Freedom Week. The session will explore how authoritarian surveillance mechanisms — then and now — affect those targeted, how societies can respond, how solidarity with victims can be strengthened, and what political […]
This report examines algorithmic technologies that are designed for use in criminal law enforcement systems, including a human rights and constitutional law analysis of the potential use of algorithmic policing technologies.
This post will summarize Citizen Lab’s prior research on surveillance in Indonesia, including documented evidence of FinFisher command and control servers and Blue Coat Systems devices on IPs owned by Indonesian ISPs. It will then identify recent trends in Indonesian surveillance practices, laws, and regulations that provide potential avenues for further research.
