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Academic research unit at @UofT investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights, and global security in the digital ecosystem.

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Citizen Lab is publishing a report today that reveals hidden keyword blacklists that are used to censor chats on... t.co/cyUlEtJG1B
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Sex, bombs and political gaffes: How censorship works on popular Chinese apps t.co/u0k8ylEhQT
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Chinese Live-Streaming Apps Employing Censorship Against Rivals t.co/dC0Qhnyftv @business
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Research report indicates China's streaming app censorship not well-coordinated t.co/L9WK6zz0ve via @ChinaRealTime
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DATA: Keyword lists used to censor chat messages on 4 live streaming applications: YY, Sina Show, 9158, and GuaGua t.co/5iySFTBSzH
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Net Alert: “Harmonized Histories? A year of fragmented censorship across Chinese live streaming applications” t.co/6w8rn5Uyjw
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“What Lies Beneath China’s Live Streaming Apps?” t.co/WIB4mwHndN
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NEW REPORT: Harmonized Histories? A year of fragmented censorship across Chinese live streaming applications t.co/26LLkeBQ9Q
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NSA Hackers The Shadow Brokers Dump More Files, IP Addresses, domains allegedly re: NSA TAO t.co/CDgnbBklQY via @motherboard
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Canada’s National Security Consultation: Digital Anonymity & Subscriber Identification Revisited… Yet Again t.co/3EMyiuIqSJ
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Our, as of yet unanswered, letter to Netsweeper concerning our Bahrain report: t.co/HnKl2hsQ7n
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The Canadian Government Has Funded a Notorious Censorship Company for a Decade t.co/s9pAHC5ArM via @motherboard
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Internetfilterung in Bahrain mit Hilfe der kanadischen Firma Netsweeper t.co/SLOVkCdYvT via @netzpolitik
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Supplementary technical data for our report can be found on our github here: t.co/cWmLw7YJf8 Full report: t.co/o9vGId9LsN
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Our “Beacon Box” test to confirm comms between a Netsweeper installation in Bahrain and Netsweeper infrastructure t.co/szIdLVCCjr
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Timeline of Netsweeper Certificate creation on Bahraini ISPs t.co/rNP2j3U05v
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Bahrain's filtering infrastructure showing Netsweeper installations t.co/Rm5b7EolBf Our full report: t.co/o9vGIdrmRn
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Canadian firm helping Bahrain censor the web: report t.co/2KVoJ1ivpB @CP24
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What an “MRI of the Internet” Can Reveal: Netsweeper in Bahrain t.co/z8nlfD8xJe @RonDeibert
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Canadian company helped Bahrain block opposition, anti-Islam websites, says report t.co/JN8lw9NZti
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