Digital Transnational Repression Explained - The Citizen Lab

We investigate how activists and dissidents living in Canada are impacted by digital transnational repression: the various ways that individuals continue to be harassed and targeted online by authoritarian governments, even after they leave their...

Psychological and Emotional War: Digital Transnational Repression in Canada - The Citizen Lab

In this report, we describe how activists and dissidents living in Canada are impacted by digital transnational repression. We conclude that digital transnational repression has a serious impact on these communities, including their ability to...

PEARL 2 PEGASUS: Bahraini activists hacked with Pegasus just days after a report confirming other victims - The Citizen Lab

Our forensic analysis confirms that phones belonging to three individuals in Bahrain were hacked in 2021 with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Two have consented to be named.

PEARL 2 PEGASUS: Bahraini activists hacked with Pegasus just days after a report confirming other victims - The Citizen Lab

Our forensic analysis confirms that phones belonging to three individuals in Bahrain were hacked in 2021 with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Two have consented to be named.

Christopher Parsons Delivers Testimony to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics - The Citizen Lab

These comments are meant to identify areas of data governance that need improvement with regards to the Government of Canada’s use of mobility data, and personal and anonymized information more generally, as well as the management of such...

Christopher Parsons Delivers Testimony to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics - The Citizen Lab

These comments are meant to identify areas of data governance that need improvement with regards to the Government of Canada’s use of mobility data, and personal and anonymized information more generally, as well as the management of such...

Cross-country Exposure: Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app - The Citizen Lab

MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio and file transfers can be trivially sidestepped. Health customs forms which...

NSO Group Spyware Targeted Dozens of Reporters in El Salvador

The newly disclosed campaign shows how little the company has done to curb abuses of its powerful surveillance tools.

Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware - The Citizen Lab

Journalists and members of civil society had their phones successfully infected with NSO’s Pegasus spyware between July 2020 - November 2021.

Submission to the Toronto Police Services Board’s Use of New Artificial Intelligence Technologies Policy - The Citizen Lab

In this submission, we urge the TPSB to centre precaution, substantive equality, human rights, privacy protections, transparency, and accountability in its policy on the use of AI technology by the Toronto Police Services (TPS).

Submission to the Toronto Police Services Board’s Use of New Artificial Intelligence Technologies Policy - The Citizen Lab

In this submission, we urge the TPSB to centre precaution, substantive equality, human rights, privacy protections, transparency, and accountability in its policy on the use of AI technology by the Toronto Police Services (TPS).

Pegasus vs. Predator: Dissident's Doubly-Infected iPhone Reveals Cytrox Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab

Two Egyptians—exiled politician Ayman Nour and the host of a popular news program (who wishes to remain anonymous)—were hacked with Predator spyware, built and sold by the previously little-known mercenary spyware developer Cytrox. The phone of...

Devices of Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware - The Citizen Lab

Front Line Defenders’ analysis indicated that six devices belonging to six Palestinian human rights defenders were hacked with Pegasus, a spyware developed by the cyber-surveillance company NSO Group. Both the Citizen Lab and Amnesty...

Breaking the News: New York Times Journalist Ben Hubbard Hacked with Pegasus after Reporting on Previous Hacking Attempts - The Citizen Lab

Our forensic analysis of two iPhones belonging to Hubbard found evidence of Pegasus infections in July 2020 and June 2021. Notably, these infections occurred after Hubbard reported in January 2020 that we found that he was targeted in 2018 by the...

GFWatch: A Longitudinal Measurement Platform Built to Monitor China's DNS Censorship at Scale - The Citizen Lab

In this report, we introduce the design of GFWatch, a large-scale longitudinal measurement platform that informs the public about how GFW censorship changes over time and its negative impact on the free flow of information.

Consultation on Draft Guidance for Police Services' Privacy Obligations on the Use of Facial Recognition Technology - The Citizen Lab

Algorithmic policing technologies, including facial recognition, have arrived or are coming to Canadian cities and provinces, and they are doing so quickly. We have identified a number of significant policy, practice, and legal deficits related to...

Ronald Deibert Provides Statement on behalf of Chelsea Manning - The Citizen Lab

The statement was provided in the context of Chelsea Manning’s inadmissibility proceeding before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

Ronald Deibert Provides Statement on behalf of Chelsea Manning - The Citizen Lab

The statement was provided in the context of Chelsea Manning’s inadmissibility proceeding before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.