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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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How governments and cyber-militias attack civil society groups, and what they can do about it t.co/uXH6EHEBMa @jsrailton
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Study Reveals China Silently Censors WeChat Messages t.co/d2MicWuDWr via @PCMag
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How to avoid getting your WeChat messages censored both in and outside China t.co/sic9DijyCT via @SCMP_News
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China's top social messaging app censors users abroad: report t.co/QcIfSWe682 via @Reuters
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ICYMI, New Report: One App, Two Systems: How WeChat uses one censorship policy in China and another internationally t.co/FULN1zyDyR
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Our latest report deals with WeChat, the dominant chat application in China and fourth largest in the world, with... t.co/q1r9gsTy9U
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WeChat Censoring User Messages Even Outside China, Study Says t.co/wZjdCZkP41
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China is censoring people’s chats without their even knowing about it t.co/6LY4eRPuQi
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NEW REPORT: One App, Two Systems: How WeChat uses one censorship policy in China and another internationally t.co/FULN1zyDyR
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New report by our partners @tibetaction “Erasing Tibet: Censorship on Chinese Video Sharing Site Youku” t.co/WLWSuXouve
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What the Canadian government could do to prevent the abuse of surveillance and spyware technologies t.co/Qeto9jCwa3
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Today is International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. Learn more here: t.co/clcFvNRqvL
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“What to do about “Dual Use” Technologies?” CitLab Director @RonDeibert written testimony to Canadian Senate t.co/Qeto9jCwa3
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World t.co/o1IDEehp1z @billmarczak
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Citizen Lab uncovers censorship across Chinese live-streaming apps - The Varsity t.co/eOFQlzCFI7
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Timeline: KeyBoy Evolution t.co/slyk1xK4mU
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As a supplement to our report we are releasing KeyBoy Yara sigs, IOCs, and decoding scripts t.co/Lnxr09uVQE
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Check out some of the technical supplements to our “It’s Parliamentary” report t.co/gLNLlAkvR4
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