The Citizen Lab

“The rush to show returns can easily push companies to loosen their scruples, with predictable results. When you look at any company selling intrusion tech to a growing global client list...you will encounter abusive misuse."- @jsrailton t.co/hBspmxk3Jg

This #TBT, we look to our Planet Netsweeper report and examine the legal, regulatory, and corporate social responsibility issues raised by the findings that authoritarian governments use Netsweeper to block access to a variety of sites. t.co/AYOzvzOFhi

What do companies know about you? What do they keep on file? Who do they share it with? Organizations are required by Canadian privacy laws to disclose this information to their customers upon request. We can help with that. t.co/rtrllUdD7n

🚨 JOB ALERT: The Citizen Lab is looking for a project coordinator to conduct a critical scoping study of the state of research and advocacy on gender + digital security. This work is important and so are your contributions, so apply today! t.co/0IITL74cbx

"The commercial spyware industry as a whole is new, lucrative and powerful, but also immature, largely unregulated, lacking in professional conduct, and prone to abuse."- @RonDeibert t.co/U1vCHQ0aJr

NSO Group Employee Allegedly Stole Company’s Powerful Spyware for Personal Profit t.co/lzjeIwJ8yf via @motherboard

🤔 Wondering why encryption matters for everyone in Canada (and beyond)? @lex_is discusses all things human rights, technology, and privacy with @IRPP t.co/EYlVRGWT4T

Are you interested in investigating the intersection of gender and digital security? Apply for the Citizen Lab's latest Project Coordinator position: t.co/0IITL74cbx

ICYMI: @RonDeibert sent a letter to the National Energy Board this week, raising concerns over their request for "security threat monitoring services" to capture "traditional media, open source and public social media data". t.co/kf4NdpihhT

Featuring our very own @lotus_ruan! t.co/9AqUAzKv5h

The Citizen Lab is hiring a contract Project Coordinator to investigate the intersection of gender and digital security. If you're a researcher with experience in gender studies, int'l development and/or infosec issues, apply today! t.co/0IITL74cbx

"We're going through this really revolutionary change in how we communicate in a very short period of time. And the line between what's public and private on social media is not very clear, and I think it's certainly not been defined legally."- @RonDeibert t.co/kf4NdpihhT

Our latest: @NEBCanada is seeking privatized "threat monitoring services" to collect "vast amounts" of online activity related to pipelines and energy. Our response highlights risks to privacy, speech, Indigenous communities and environmental groups here: t.co/ltBFyMIrGs

One year ago, Citizen Lab showed that spyware technology was being used to target journalists & human rights defenders in Mexico. Here @tumbolian explains how tools meant to track criminals turned into the biggest surveillance scandal in Mexican history t.co/LqjRGsQwZs

“Many automated OSINT tools are as much snake oil as they are useful"- @caparsons t.co/OItQNx9VXH

Listen to @lex_is on the latest episode of the @IRPP podcast, discussing the nuances of encryption technology, human rights and security t.co/EYlVRGWT4T

ICYMI: "This was a ‘Big Data’ surveillance effort that was operated in contravention of the authorizing law of CSIS, an incredibly secretive organization"- @caparsons t.co/Pbzdb4syje

""Civil society is increasingly the victim of cyber capabilities that were once seen as tools of popular liberation and that are now more often instruments of repression." Why Canada needs a cyber security foreign policy t.co/BonaTfFlUS via @thehilltimes

If you're in Toronto tomorrow, make sure to catch @RonDeibert deliver a keynote address on surveillance and big data at the LSA 2018 Annual Meeting t.co/MJ5DAnREvw

ICYMI: "There is the risk that instead of improving the situation, these technologies may just entrench or encourage unfair or discriminatory practices"- @lex_is t.co/huAJwlXBFW

Today, Citizen Lab sent an open letter to Francisco Partners requesting an update on our March report concerning Sandvine, as well as the reported interest in a sale of NSO Group to Verint Systems & Francisco Partners’ investment practices more generally t.co/1LxjFbpweP

#TBT to 2010, when Citizen Lab Director @RonDeibert took on Blackberry's lack of transparency around collusion with governments on surveillance, in @globeandmail t.co/9YBN5LYxgU

"Criminals and law-abiding citizens alike use the same communication systems: weaken them for one and you weaken them for all."- @RonDeibert on ongoing encryption debates and the latest report by @citizenlab and @cippic t.co/o7sZambHsI

Wondering how encrypted email actually works? @citizenlab and @cippic researchers discuss the technical, legal, and historical issues of encryption in their newly released field guide t.co/lYehP2ivHx