Citizen Lab director, Professor Ron Deibert, is this year’s 2020 CBC Massey Lecturer. Accompanying the lectures is a book authored by Deibert, entitled RESET: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society.

In a recent article for Ethics & International Affairs, Citizen Lab founder and director Ronald Deibert challenges the dominant “national security–centric” approach to cybersecurity, reflecting deep divisions to how the broad topic of cybersecurity is currently approached.

November 13, 2014

In June 2013, news broke out in media outlets around the world of a secret program operated by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) regarding the collection of information directly from several major U.S. Internet companies. The program, referred to as “PRISM”, involves data collection on a large scale from phones, streams of Internet traffic, and content stored by Internet companies. Despite denials by major Internet companies of their complicity with the NSA regarding this program, leaked reports have also indicated the agency paid millions of dollars to major technology companies to cover the costs of the program.

October 21, 2013

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, was interviewed by Matt Galloway on CBC’s Metro Morning and Doran Barons on Digital Village Radio about the subject matter of his new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace.

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, was interviewed by Richard Solash for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and by Olivia Ward for The Toronto Star.

Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, was interviewed by Amanda Lang on CBC News: The National and by Steve Paikan on TVO’s The Agenda about the subject matter of his new book, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace.

Citizen Lab Director was interviewed by The Globe and Mail’s Sophie Cousineau on the cyber arms race, Huawei and cyber security.