لعبة الغمّيضة: تتبع عمليات برنامج بيغاسوس من شركة NSO في 45 دولة
عَمِلنا في هذا البحث على تطوير تقنيات جديدة لمسح الإنترنت لتحديد 45 بلداً قد يقوم فيها مشغلو برامج التجسس بيغاسوس من شركة NSO بإجراء عمليات تجسس.
Research
Citizen Lab research includes: investigating digital espionage against civil society, documenting Internet filtering and other technologies and practices that impact freedom of expression online, analyzing privacy, security, and information controls of popular applications, and examining transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies regarding personal data and other surveillance activities.
Targeted Threats
Investigations into the prevalence and impact of digital espionage operations against civil society groups.
Latest Research
HIDE AND SEEK: Tracking NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware to Operations in 45 Countries
In this post, we develop new Internet scanning techniques to identify 45 countries in which operators of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware may be conducting operations.
Familiar Feeling: A Malware Campaign Targeting the Tibetan Diaspora Resurfaces
Investigation of a malware campaign targeting the Tibetan community and discussion of the challenges in analyzing closed espionage ecosystems.
Free Expression Online
Studies of Internet filtering, network interference, and other technologies and practices that impact freedom of expression online.
Latest Research
An analysis of censorship in Chinese open source projects
A new paper by the Citizen Lab investigates how Chinese censorship reaches independent developers and reveals that, while developers include censorship lists in open source projects, there is little apparent similarity in these blacklists, raising several questions about their origins.
(Can’t) Picture This: An Analysis of Image Filtering on WeChat Moments
This report demonstrates the technical underpinnings of how WeChat image censorship operates and suggests possible evasion strategies.
Transparency and Accountability
Examinations of transparency and accountability mechanisms relevant to the relationship between corporations and state agencies regarding personal data and other surveillance activities.
Latest Research
Shining a Light on the Encryption Debate: A Canadian Field Guide
Critical analysis and insight that navigates the complex implications of ongoing encryption debates.
Approaching Access: A look at consumer personal data requests in Canada
Canadians can learn new things about your personal data by requesting access to it from companies. What can be found out varies by company and there can be some hurdles to overcome before you get access.
Government’s Defence of Proposed CSE Act Falls Short
In this post, we evaluate the Government’s explanation of some of the more problematic elements of Bill C-59 in its briefing notes. We ultimately conclude that while the government’s briefing material provides insight into some of the ways that the CSE might act following the passage of the CSE Act, the material itself does not resolve our concerns with the CSE Act.
App Privacy and Controls
Research into privacy, security, and information controls of popular applications.
Latest Research
Fit Leaking: Citizen Lab Research on Fitness Tracker Privacy
The post covers several categories of information that can be gleaned from examining Strava’s fitness tracker data, ranging from enabling the identification of secret military facilities in “dark areas” to specific identifiable behaviour patterns of at-risk individuals.
Still Safer Without: Another look at Korean Child Monitoring and Filtering Apps
South Korea requires minors to have content filtering apps installed on their phones. A security audit of two child monitoring apps published by major Korean telecoms —KT Olleh Kidsafe and Clean Mobile Plus—finds serious security and privacy issues that put children at risk.
Secure Your Chats: Why Encrypted Messaging Matters
End-to-end encrypted messaging is effective at protecting the content of your messages from being read as they travel across the Internet to your friends and family. This is why the Citizen Lab has released Secure Your Chats: a Net Alert resource that outlines how to safely use end-to-end encryption.
Global Research Network
Outputs related to the global community of practice that the Citizen Lab helps to cultivate through our Cyber Stewards Network, various fellowships, and events.
Latest Research
Leandro Ucciferri on the Identity We Can’t Change
What does it mean for technology to be increasingly reliant on biometrics? Do facial recognition practices make room for racial discrimination? With both private companies and states implementing biometric technologies, what human rights issues arise? These are some of the questions addressed in Leandro Ucciferri’s new post with Privacy International, “The Identity We Can’t Change”.
ICT Watch Indonesia Wins at World Summit on the Information Society Forum
Cyber Stewards Network partner ICT Watch Indonesia was recently recognized at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) for their tireless work in championing online freedom of expression.
Derechos Digitales and the EFF publish report on Chilean ISP privacy policies
Cyber Stewards Network Partner Derechos Digitales has published a report in collaboration with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, titled “Who Has Your Back in Chile? First-Annual Report Seeks to Find Out Which Chilean ISPs Stand With Their Users.”
