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How Freedom Tech Is Pushing Back Against Digital Authoritarianism1 day

Senior legal advisor Siena Anstis and senior researcher John Scott-Railton spoke with Forbes about the lagging legal safeguards that allow spyware to proliferate.

Scott-Railton w...

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Spying Via Your Mobile Phone: Companies Can Locate Any Device at Any Time3 days

Hasso Plattner Institute and Citizen Lab doctoral fellow Swantje Lange spoke with Tagesspiegel about the Lab’s recent research on telecom surveillance campa...

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Canada Finally Has a National AI Strategy. Experts Hate It.1 week

Senior fellow Cynthia Khoo writes that “pillars core to a functioning democracy are [being] reoriented around the false god of AI” in The Walrus.

Khoo argues that Canada’s new AI strategy pays little attention to regulations or human rights, placing the b...

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Who Watches the Watchers?1 week

Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert spoke to Politiken about the spyware industry, calling it “a symptom that something is fundamentally wrong.”

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Luis Fernando García On State Surveillance in Latin America1 week

Senior researcher Luis Fernando García participated in a Conversatorio Regional hosted by CELS, ODIA, Democracia en Red, and Vía Libre on “Technologies of state surveillance, democratic control, and protection of civil space.”

Fernando García spoke about the abuse of spyware, mass surveillance and advertising intelligence by governments across Latin America.

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