The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & 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.
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Last Notes npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab New legal commentary by The Citizen Lab’s Cynthia Khoo and Kate Robertson warns of the constitutional dangers posed by a potential Canada-U.S. CLOUD Act agreement. If signed, this would extend the reach of U.S. law enforcement into Canada’s digital terrain to an unprecedented extent. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab ⚠️ New legal analysis by The Citizen Lab’s Cynthia Khoo and Kate Robertson warns of the constitutional dangers posed by the Canada-U.S. #CLOUDAct. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab ✒️Even after Assad’s fall, #disinformation in #Syria is thriving. In an opinion piece The Citizen Lab’s @nprofile…aeax discusses how new trends and tactics have emerged, and how foreign powers and non-state actors exploit social media to manipulate narratives and spread fear. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab In a Q&A for the Digital Front Lines report by Foreign Policy Analytics (@nprofile…4j3t) human rights activist Carine Kanimba and The Citizen Lab director @nprofile…gh3g discuss the human toll of spyware and call for collaboration between civil society, tech firms, and governments to combat its abuse. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab Our first network security analysis of the popular social media app, #RedNote, has revealed some major red flags 🚩🚩🚩. The app is used by over 300 million users worldwide - but its network encryption falls short. Read the report: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/02/network-security-issues-in-rednote/ npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab Imagine having your home address splattered all over the internet. Meryem, an activist living in the US, knows exactly what that’s like. She faces relentless online harassment from Chinese state-backed trolls as she fights for #Uyghur rights. Her fight is made even harder because she is a woman. Learn about the price she’s paid: https://citizenlab.ca/case-studies/meryem-a-human-rights-activist-from-xinjiang-china/ #digitaltransnationalrepression npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab Dounia is an exiled journalist living in France. After exposing Morocco's use of #spyware against politicians, she became the target of physical and sexual harassment, spread across both traditional media and social platforms. Even while in #China, #Morocco continued to harass her, forcing her to flee to #France, where the online attacks continued. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab After Fatima fled to the UK, the Syrian state-sponsored attacks continued. Both the regime and anti-regime groups continue to target her, both online and offline, making her journalism a high-risk endeavour. With her family used as leverage, she has been pressured to self-censor. Learn how these attacks impact her life and work: https://citizenlab.ca/case-studies/fatima-a-journalist-from-syria/ #digitaltransnationalrepression npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab What can the world learn from Indonesia’s democracy? Join the Citizen Lab’s Irene Poetranto on November 14 for a panel discussion @npub1fd6…nw6w about the challenges in sustaining democracy, and the important lessons Indonesia has to offer about the resilience and vulnerabilities of democratic systems. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab 💬 NEW REPORT: We take a deep dive into the network encryption protocol used by #WeChat, an app with over one billion users. The app uses a custom #encryption protocol called “MMTLS” that introduces cryptographic weaknesses. Read our report: https://citizenlab.ca/2024/10/should-we-chat-too-security-analysis-of-wechats-mmtls-encryption-protocol npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab NEW BOOK: “Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy” by Ronald Deibert, director and founder of The Citizen Lab, will hit shelves February 4, 2025. npub1fpyywdlcg39w5prp8lylw76jf8sqtclrnpr525d6wjgms8w4eajqvs2jcw The Citizen Lab We connected the phishing to #COLDRIVER, a threat actor attributed to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) by multiple governments. The attackers typically sought to trick targets into entering their credentials by credibly impersonating colleagues and professional acquaintances, then sharing fake “encrypted” or “protected” files for review.
