Citizen Lab

• Ottawa’s cybersecurity bill flawed and should be amended, new report warns

  The report by Christopher Parsons of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab makes 29 recommendations to bolster transparency and accountability of the proposed measures.

  Canada

  Oct 18
  
• Apple releases critical software patch to fix security vulnerability

  Researchers at Citizen Lab said the security hole could allow hackers to directly infect iPhones and other Apple devices without any user action.

  Tech

  Sep 13, 2021
  
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• Canadian police using controversial ‘predictive policing’ tools, report finds

  An expert group has called on the federal government to protect residents from the potential perils of such tactics.

  Canada

  Sep 1, 2020
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• Saskatchewan Health Ministry assessing tech-based coronavirus tracing

  Tech giants Apple and Google are working on contact tracing coronavirus infections using cellphone data. The Saskatchewan Health Ministry says it is assessing similar programs.

  Canada

  Apr 23, 2020
• Iran linked to internet disinformation, fake news: Canadian report

  The campaign is another indication of how online disinformation is being tested by countries well beyond Russia,

  Tech

  May 14, 2019
• Are shadowy agents targeting Canadians who criticize an Israeli spyware firm?

  NSO Group is fighting three lawsuits that allege its spyware was used to monitor journalists, activists and a friend of Jamal Khashoggi in Canada.

  Canada

  Feb 16, 2019
• Undercover spies caught fishing for anti-Israel remarks following Canadian sting

  Undercover operatives have targeted at least six people who have raised questions about spyware from NSO Group, an Israeli software firm.

  World

  Feb 11, 2019
• Toronto-based Citizen Lab, which exposed Israeli spy software, targeted by undercover agents

  The Toronto-based researchers who reported that Israeli software was used to spy on WJamal Khashoggi's inner circle are being targeted in turn by international undercover operatives.

  Canada

  Jan 26, 2019
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• Saudi Arabia used controversial spyware to monitor Canada-based political refugee: report

  University of Toronto's Citizen Lab say that Omar Abdulaziz's cellphone was infected with the spyware Pegasus, and that it was being monitored from Saudi Arabia.

  World

  Oct 1, 2018
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• A man-eating great white shark wasn’t caught in Lac-St.-Jean (or Lake Michigan, either)

  It would be good news to learn that deadly freshwater sharks had been found and caught - it's better news that they never existed in the first place.

  Canada

  Jul 22, 2017