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The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs, at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media, global security, and human rights. Read more »

In Focus

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

Authored by Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert, Black Code lifts the lid on cyberspace and shows what’s at stake for Internet users and citizens. This book will be released on 21 May 2013.

For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying

Citizen Lab is pleased to announce the release of “For Their Eyes Only: The Commercialization of Digital Spying.” The report features new findings, as well as consolidating a year of our research on the commercial market for offensive computer network intrusion capabilities developed by Western companies.

Call for Applications: Connaught Summer Institute on Monitoring Internet Openness and Rights

Application Deadline: June 1st, 2013
Event: July 22nd-26th, 2013

Research News

Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch – April 2013

This edition of the Middle East and North Africa CyberWatch discusses censorship and filtering, surveillance, blogger and netizen arrests and more.

Latin America and the Caribbean CyberWatch- April 2013

This edition of the Latin America and the Caribbean CyberWatch covers related developments from Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Cuba, and Jamaica.

Social Media CyberWatch – April 2013

This Social Media CyberWatch looks at various legislative updates to privacy law, as well as other social media tracking activities.

Southeast Asia CyberWatch – April 2013

This edition of the Southeast Asia CyberWatch contains featured news update on the Malaysian election, as well as from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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Lab News

Hunting for Syrian hackers’ chain of command

May 22, 2013 – 5:11 am

Citizen Lab Research Fellow John Scott-Railton and Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire are featured in a New York Times piece on the Syrian Electronic Army.

Is it wrong to use data from the world’s first ‘nice’ botnet?

May 19, 2013 – 5:36 am

A new piece in Wired magazine features the discussion of the ethics of using the Internet Census data from Citizen Lab Security Researcher and Technical Advisor Morgan Marquis-Boire and Post-Doctoral Fellow Philippa Gill.

Senior Researcher Sarah McKune profiled in CJFE publication

May 13, 2013 – 7:55 am

Citizen Lab Senior Researcher Sarah McKune was profiled in the Review of Free Expression in Canada, published each year by the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE).

Five Russian-made surveillance technologies used in the West

May 10, 2013 – 2:22 pm

A new article in Wired magazine as part of the joint project by Privacy International, Agentura.Ru and the Citizen Lab on Russia’s surveillance state.

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