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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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公民实验室研究发现微信除了审查关键词,还会过滤不良图片。我们的最新报告从技术层面分析了微信朋友圈上的两种过滤敏感图片的算法。t.co/D95oAEAudb
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ICYMI: "With up to 175 reported instances of abusive surveillance, it seems clear that NSO Group is unable or unwilling to prevent its customers from misusing its powerful spyware tools." t.co/KAsgZmtGll
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Coming up this afternoon at FOCI 2018, the Citizen Lab's Jeffrey Knockel will be presenting findings on our latest WeChat image filtering research #FOCI18 t.co/iCBXOmGH81
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NEW REPORT: (Can't) Picture This: An Analysis of Image Filtering on WeChat Moments t.co/dsktfWBIU9
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🚨 Deadline to apply for the gender and digital security project coordinator position is TODAY. Get those applications in! t.co/0IITL74cbx
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ICYMI: "The criticism of Saudi Arabia on women's rights is encouraging," said @RonDeibert. "How can Canada at the same time justify supporting a Canadian company whose technology is helping facilitate human rights violations abroad?" t.co/BECz7Y6Oih
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"Tibetans in Exile are connected to each other through various organizations and contacts. If you are compromised, you become the weakest link, and allow the spies to get information that can be used to target other Tibetans."- @lobsangsither t.co/dFbVWs83zd
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The Citizen Lab's @LenMaschmeyer writes for @CFR_org about at-risk CSOs, the specific digital threats they face, and challenges to mitigating such dangers t.co/84fz9PYJgO
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NEW REPORT: Familiar Feeling: A Malware Campaign Targeting the Tibetan Diaspora Resurfaces t.co/dFbVWs83zd
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ICYMI: “There is a limit on how far and how high up public discussions can go before it gets on the leadership’s nerves”- @lotus_ruan t.co/6lH56zwRQG
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🗓️Deadline for the Citizen Lab's gender & digital security project coordinator position is August 13. Apply today! t.co/0IITL74cbx
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"It’s encouraging that the Trudeau government has advocated for LGBTQ2+ rights, but talk is cheap. Canada needs..to take action to prevent the use of Canadian-made technology to censor access to legitimate LGBTQ2+ content worldwide." @RonDeibert @hilltimes t.co/wB1dlsS2RI
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"Google’s Dragonfly: A Bellwether for Human Rights in the Digital Age." Opinion piece by Sarah McKune and @RonDeibert on Google's proposed censorship engine for China's market t.co/7OXxrZgTDh via @just_security
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Powerful Smartphone Malware Used to Target Amnesty International Researcher t.co/x3tw7rHZ2m via @motherboard
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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
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Amnesty reports that one of their researchers, as well as a Saudi activist abroad, were targeted with NSO’s Pegasus spyware: t.co/d4C2UbOS3v
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The website of #EqualRightsCoalition partner @ILGAWORLD is categorized “Alternative Lifestyles” by @netsweeper technology, which we confirmed blocked in the UAE. See: t.co/iqT8n1BK3M
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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🚨 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
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"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
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