The Citizen Lab

We're now accepting applications for the @OpenTechFund Information Controls Fellowship Program. Ideal candidates include those with research interests in: 🔹Freedom of expression 🔹Targeted digital threats against civil society 🔹Mobile app privacy t.co/PSKY3iGS6S

If you're enrolled in @RonDeibert's @UofT_PolSci class, apply for the 2022 Reset Scholarship! Special consideration will be given to applications from Black and Indigenous students t.co/r8jY0ysjrD

While Pegasus dominates headlines, it's not alone. "What is truly daunting to contemplate...is that NSO Group is but one among many companies in a growing marketplace for this type of surveillance technology." - @RonDeibert t.co/ZTKAnSW7Oq

“冬奥通”是2022年北京奥运会官方规定与会者必须安装的一个手机软件。我们的最新研究指出“冬奥通”有一个简单但后果严重的安全漏洞，阅读详细报告⬇️ t.co/aiQR6KoOTa

NEW REPORT Cross-country Exposure: Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app t.co/g3HydeD9Aa

“There’s an increasing divide between what government can lawfully do in terms of collecting and using...personal information that had been anonymized and aggregated, and what individual Canadians think" - @caparsons t.co/xbn4cUQYLa

NEW REPORT Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware t.co/5aJXV4fUGY

“The silence of Canada is giving the attackers more space to launch an attack" - @nouraaljizawi t.co/RcvlqojPfa

"Disinformation moves at the speed of social media; fact-checking is still stuck in an analog age" - @jsrailton t.co/pcmEQAnmEU

Still time to apply for the Assistant Professor - Information Security position at @munkschool, to work closely with the Citizen Lab. Candidates must have an interest in applied research, policy & collaborating across disciplines. Deadline: Jan. 24, 2022 t.co/09do6sTOM8 t.co/Z8D3b8se1P

Question: Does the Citizen Lab accept donations? Answer: Yes we do! Details at this (now correct) link at the @UofT here: t.co/sn7lM7wIAH

While the Association of Southeast Asian Nations & the African Union create spaces for discussions on cyber norms, questions remain on how agreement at the regional level can be achieved. The latest from the Citizen Lab's @irenepoet @JoshGold3 & Justin Lau t.co/6b9DWuBlRj

NEW REPORT Pegasus vs. Predator: Dissident’s Doubly-Infected iPhone Reveals Cytrox Mercenary Spyware t.co/58G8tpWXkG

Successive Canadian governments have stated that they will decide whether to ban Huawei equipment from Canadian telco networks. Today, which marks a year since we published our report on Huawei & 5G, no decision has been publicly declared. t.co/55OWvIG1Wd

Ikuti diskusi dengan peneliti senior @irenepoet dalam panel mengenai penyensoran situs-situs LGBTIQ sebagai bagian dari #OutSummit2021 t.co/vPq5iCqBNL t.co/k715NIyRMa

“We know that online censorship is on the rise globally, and internet filtering is practiced by authoritarian and democratic countries alike.” - @irenepoet t.co/mFpgbWDkcn

As a finalist for the Tallberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize, @RonDeibert discusses fighting to protect human rights defenders and keeping corporate avarice in check. t.co/VVA5SGo58a

As digital technologies continue to advance, website censorship—along with efforts to circumvent it—are dynamic. This leads to a persistent game of cat-and-mouse between governments and LGBTIQ users, both of whom are trying to stay ahead of the other. t.co/yswo0bdQNW

The Citizen Lab's @nouraaljizawi and @sienaanstis will join @freedomhouse for a discussion on how authoritarian governments reach beyond borders to silence dissent among exiled and diaspora communities. 🕙December 7, 2021 🗓️10:00 AM EST t.co/8XzCNlYeh2

In our report on GFWatch, we found that China's Great Firewall blocked access to a US-based online shopping platform due to them hosting a store selling Uyghur cultural products, despite the platform being owned by Alibaba. t.co/KHMY2inFFn

Join @RonDeibert as he delivers the keynote address at the 18th annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture, discussing Digital Subversion: The Threat to Democracy 🗓️ Wed, December 1 🕕 6:00 pm EST 🐦 @NEDemocracy @ThinkDemocracy 📝 t.co/LO4AuaEvRc t.co/zMCpEBysfI

The closing date for the @munkschool search for an Assistant Professor in Information Security has been extended until January 24, 2022. More info: t.co/09do6sTOM8 t.co/S2nhABnc1U

Today, our partners at @FrontLineHRD released a report that found NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on 6 Palestinian phones. Of them, 3 consented to be named and worked at NGOs that the Israeli government recently designated “terrorist organizations.” t.co/7kyNQFLism

BREAKING NOW: @FrontLineHRD discovers hacking of Palestinians with NSO Group's Pegasus. t.co/4oZ5Pvkvw4 @citizenlab and @AmnestyTech verify findings: t.co/IAJGnMv49I

The Citizen Lab's @OpenTechFund fellow @NP_tokumei has developed GFWatch: a large-scale measurement platform capable of testing hundreds of millions of domains daily, enabling continuous monitoring of China’s Great Firewall DNS filtering behavior t.co/KHMY2i64gN

ICYMI: “I don't think it's possible within 100 days to achieve the kinds of objectives that the government seems to have set out for itself in these consultation documents” - @lex_is t.co/1MMs7Nw1PT

Working with our partners @OpenObservatory and @OutRightIntl, we document the pervasive blocking of LGBTIQ websites in 6 countries, revealing that censorship is executed through technological means supported by political willpower. t.co/yswo0bdQNW

COVID-19 has revealed the divide between privacy expectations and those guaranteed in law. Policymakers must now contemplate reforms that satisfy individuals’ expectations of privacy against the needs of states to respond to future health crises. #cdnpoli t.co/JWlypq3hlZ

As UN members try to devise rules for responsible behavior in cyberspace, long-standing disagreements have failed to address the root causes of cyber instability. And while these delays persist, the sophistication of threat actors increases. t.co/rIe6iXNgFE