A research laboratory focused on studying digital threats to civil society and human rights.

The Citizen Lab

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

We use a “mixed methods” approach to research combining practices from political science, law, computer science, and area studies. Our research includes: investigating digital espionage against civil society, documenting Internet filtering and other technologies and practices that impact freedom of expression online, analyzing privacy, security, and information controls of popular applications, and examining transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies regarding personal data and other surveillance activities.

Citizen Lab

Introducing threat-intelligence expert and author Rebekah Brown – the newest addition to the Citizen Lab’s interdisciplinary research team. She is co-author of the book “Intelligence-Driven Incident Response”, an instructor at SANS Institute, and previously worked at Apple focussing on security engineering and architecture.

🚨 Job alert! Are you interested in working with the Citizen Lab's team of interdisciplinary researchers at #UofT? Do you know someone who is? 

We are looking for an Informatics Security Analyst and Network Administrator to join our team. The incumbent will be responsible for carrying out a range of system and network administration duties, including assisting in the management and oversight of the use of all information technology in the lab.

Applications close Jul 11, 2024. Get the details 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/gjcHyMTp

In our latest joint investigation with Access Now, we reveal seven Russian and Belarusian-speaking civil society members and #journalists who were targeted with NSO Group's #Pegasus mercenary spyware.

Read the report here:
https://lnkd.in/gwCws4jJ

Next week at Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity's
#CyberCivilDefenseSummit, the Citizen Lab’s Gözde Böcü and Nicola Lawford will present their research (co-authored by Noura A.ljizawi) on the cybersecurity challenges faced by transnational advocacy groups in the U.S. targeted by authoritarian regimes. 

Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gHhWwpHF

The Parliament of Canada is expected to pass Bill C-26 in an attempt to increase the country's cyber readiness. In an op-ed for the The Globe and Mail, the Citizen Lab’s Ronald Deibert and Kate Robertson warn of the federal bill’s potential to threaten the online security of everyone in #Canada.

Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gKQ-3kGJ

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