Citizen Lab’s new report, The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada was featured in numerous media, including the Globe and Mail.

A new report, entitled The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada, continues Citizen Lab research into the intersection of the private sector, authoritarianism, and cyberspace regulation, turning our attention to a component of the Internet that does not typically receive the same amount of attention as filtering, surveillance, and computer network attack products and services: web hosting services.

On Tuesday, 29 November 2011, Citizen Lab Post-Doctoral Fellow Stefania Milan will be participating in an event at the Media@McGill research centre at McGill University, Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism, One Year After Cablegate.

Following the release of Citizen Lab’s brief, Behind Blue Coat: Investigations of commercial filtering in Syria and Burma, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert spoke to Marco Werman about the research findings on BBC’s The World.

Citizen Lab Visiting Research Fellow Luis Horacio Najera will be presenting at the International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Ryerson University on Wednesday, November 16.

Although Blue Coat has recently acknowledged the presence of their devices in Syria, this brief contributes to previous findings of devices in the country, documents additional devices in use in Syria, and identifies Blue Coat devices actively in use in Burma.

The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) is pleased to announce the availability of our summarized global Internet filtering data as a downloadable CSV file under a Creative Commons license.

Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert wrote an article in the recent G-20 Research Group publication, which discusses the impact of an increase in “cloud computing” on issues of policing, privacy and human rights.

Hosted by Access, the first ever Silicon Valley Human Rights conference was held to examine how the human rights and high tech sectors can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of new technologies