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Powerful Smartphone Malware Used to Target Amnesty International Researcher t.co/x3tw7rHZ2m via @motherboard

NSO Group seems to have accidentally reused some of their old infrastructure when they were rebuilding after our Million Dollar Dissident report. Both Amnesty and us tracked it down and linked NSO Group to infection attempts against Saudi dissidents t.co/KAsgZmc4WL

Amnesty reports that one of their researchers, as well as a Saudi activist abroad, were targeted with NSO’s Pegasus spyware: t.co/d4C2UbOS3v

The website of #EqualRightsCoalition partner @ILGAWORLD is categorized “Alternative Lifestyles” by @netsweeper technology, which we confirmed blocked in the UAE. See: t.co/iqT8n1BK3M

Read "Citizen Lab Open Letter in Advance of the Equal Rights Coalition Global Conference (August 5-7, 2018, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)" by @citizenlab: t.co/iqT8n1BK3M #EqualRightsCoalition #Netsweeper cc @robertoampuero @R_Boissonnault @cafreeland

UN Special Rapporteur Dubravka Šimonović recently submitted a report to @UNHumanRights on online violence against women. It incorporates several Citizen Lab recommendations, including the importance of encryption, intersectionality & rights to privacy. t.co/xyD9xfb8Qa

Think you're not part of the encryption debate? "Public access to effective digital security technology prevents countless forms of digitally mediated crime: from identity fraud, theft, & extortion to larger scale intrusions of networks & infrastructure." t.co/knddttPhDo

An integral part of the Citizen Lab's mandate is seeking applicants who enrich our discourse by ensuring it is the product of a diversity of perspectives. So please share this opportunity widely! t.co/0IITL74cbx

“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