Digital research center at the University of Toronto
Not to be confused with CitizenLab.
Citizen Lab
Formation
2001
Type
Research Laboratory
Headquarters
University of Toronto
Location
Toronto
Ontario
Director
Ronald Deibert
Website
citizenlab.ca
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada. It was founded by Ronald Deibert in 2001. The laboratory studies information controls that impact the openness and security of the Internet and that pose threats to human rights.[1] The organization uses a "mixed methods" approach which combines computer-generated interrogation, data mining, and analysis with intensive field research, qualitative social science, and legal and policy analysis methods. The organization has played a major role in providing technical support to journalists investigating the use of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware on journalists, politicians and human rights advocates.
^"BPR Interview: Citizens Lab Director Ronald Deibert". Brown Political Review. October 21, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2016. BPR interviewed Ronald Deibert, director of Citizens Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, an interdisciplinary research organization focusing at the intersection of internet, global security and human rights. They have worked for the office of the Dalai Lama.
The CitizenLab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, Canada. It was founded by...
CitizenLab is a Belgian civic tech company that builds citizen engagement platforms for local governments. The company was founded in 2015 by Wietse Van...
CitizenLab with updated versions of UC Browser in order to verify their security fixes to these issues. The subsequent update published by Citizen Lab...
used exploits in Microsoft installer files. In June 2015, Kaspersky Lab and CitizenLab both independently discovered software developed by Hacking Team...
and the CitizenLab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto occasionally collaborate on research projects, through the Psi-Lab partnership...
professor of political science, philosopher, founder and director of the CitizenLab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He was a...
containing a fix for the vulnerability. The exploit was discovered by CitizenLab, who reported that the vulnerability has been used to target political...
Dark Basin is a hack-for-hire group, discovered in 2017 by CitizenLab. They are suspected to have acted on the behalf of companies such as Wirecard and...
contributor by the Washington Post – an appointment that was criticized by CitizenLab in the context of her role at NSO and the criticism led to Kayyem stepping...
Bing did not specify the reason. In May 2022, a report released by the CitizenLab of the University of Toronto found that Bing's autosuggestion system...
censorship policy in China and another internationally - The CitizenLab". The CitizenLab. Retrieved 29 April 2017. Shu, Catherine (November 11, 2015)...
competition between Israeli defense companies. On December 6, 2017, the CitizenLab reported that Ethiopian dissidents and journalists in the US, UK, and...
government authority, law enforcement agency, or similar body. In May 2020, CitizenLab published a study which claimed that WeChat monitors foreign chats to...
review of corporate registry documents by the University of Toronto's CitizenLab indicated that Cytrox has a presence in Israel and Hungary. In 2019,...
flood traffic to targeted websites. According to the researchers at the CitizenLab, the International Computer Science Institute, and Princeton University's...
local teams for users in different regions. A March 2021 study by the CitizenLab found that TikTok did not censor searches politically but was inconclusive...
sharing of data with Facebook, Linkedin, and Google. In April 2020, CitizenLab warned that having much of Zoom's research and development in China could...
completed despite concerns raised by Ronald Deibert, the director of the CitizenLab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto who...
of espionage studied by CitizenLab, far surpassing those of Al Jazeera (36 victims) and El Salvador (35 victims). CitizenLab did not definitively attribute...
It manages numerous citizen science projects and websites, including the Webby Award-winning All About Birds. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology was founded...
made at home. "Collaboratively generating more knowledge: Public Lab's approach to citizen science". Creative Commons. 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2019-01-11....
filtering programs. Participating academic institutions included the CitizenLab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto;...
not reveal names of the end users, which according to a research by CitizenLab include, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Mexico and the United...
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