Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
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📢 New Report: No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression.
We examine how gender shapes digital transnational repression—where governments target, suppress, and surveil activists across borders using digital tools
📖 Read the full report: https://citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-weaponization-of-gender-for-the-purposes-of-digital-transnational-repression/
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
🚨 New Report Alert! 🚨
Excited to share our latest research, "Enhancing Cybersecurity Resilience for Transnational Dissidents," published by the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. Co-authored with my @citizenlab@mastodon.social colleagues Gözde Böcü & Nicola Lawford, the report dives into the cybersecurity threats faced by exiled women dissidents in the U.S.
As the foundation for this study, we conducted 17 semi-structured interviews with women-identifying victims of digital transnational repression (DTR) in the U.S., along with five current and former staff members from digital rights organizations. The paper outlines the distinct cybersecurity challenges these dissidents and their organizations face, using a structure based on SAFETAG—a cybersecurity framework designed for small non-profit organizations—along with additional themes and insights drawn from these interviews.
In this report, we shed light on the growing cybersecurity threats targeting these women and their organizations, from spyware attacks to disinformation campaigns. Operating at the intersection of gender, politics, and digital repression, these activists face unique challenges in their fight for justice and free expression.
We also highlight how these activists have developed their own cybersecurity practices based on their experiences and needs. Their resilience extends into all areas of daily life, including home, family, external employment, and navigating their host country and diaspora community.
#cybersecurity #DigitalRights #TransnationalRepression #DTR
Check it out
https://cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/cyber-resilience-for-transnational-dissidents/
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
"Who writes history, and who has the right to tell which stories? If not the people who lived through and witnessed the conflict, then who?" My latest 'From Hashtags to Hush-Tags: The Tug of War Over Social Media in Conflict Zones: The removal of victims' online content in conflict zones such as Gaza and Syria plays in favor of regimes committing atrocities. And social media platforms are not passive bystanders in this censorship.' in @timepdc@bird.makeup
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
European Spyware Consortium Supplied Despots and Dictators
The Intellexa Alliance is the name of the shady group of European companies that supplies dictators and despots with cyberweapons. The mass spyware attacks have also been lucrative for some in Germany.
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
Read our latest in the MERIP “Transnational Repression Against Exiled Women Activists”
https://merip.org/2023/09/exiled-women/
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
Come work with us! We have an exciting job opportunity available @citizenlab@mastodon.social To learn more and apply, click the link below:
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/new-opportunity-communications-coordinator/
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
Citizen Lab and Access Now’s investigation revealed the infection of the Russian exiled journalist Galiana Timchenko’s iPhone with Pegasus spyware
Senior Researcher @citizenlab | Alumni @uoft @munkschool | Board member @CVTorg
‘Foaming at the mouth’: 10 years since chemical attacks in Syria’s Ghouta