In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, we found with high confidence that Professor Vladan Đokić, Rector of the ...

“The assumption by government officials that technology companies can find “safe ways” to weaken critical cybersecurity protections badly misreads the current threat landscape,” argues the Citizen Lab ...

Focus Areas App Security & Privacy Artificial Intelligence Censorship Digital Transnational Repression Disinformation Law & Policy Mass Surveillance Targeted ...

The Citizen Lab is a public-interest research group based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focused on investigating novel threats to democracy, human rights ...

This event is hosted by BlackHat. Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert will be a keynote speaker at SecTor, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on October 7. He will be speaking about the Citizen ...

Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade online censorship, plans to leave Canada if the federal government’s ...

Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert is quoted in an article in the Guardian about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s increasing influence on AI dominance. “For the last 20 years, democracy has been in ...

Senior researcher Alberto Fittarelli will be speaking at Disinfo2026 in Vilnius on October 8 about a Citizen Lab investigation into AI-enabled information warfare that ran in parallel to strikes by ...

This event is hosted by re:publica Vienna. Senior researcher Wolfie Christl will be speaking about his research on ad-based mass surveillance at re:publica Vienna on October 2. His talk will explain ...

Two UN reports that the Citizen Lab submitted recommendations to have been published this month. One report, from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, assesses risks to human rights defenders ...

The Citizen Lab recently submitted a response to the Research Directorate at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on the issue of the monitoring of Chinese citizens and diaspora members in ...