Donoho Spring Lecture: Spyware, Big Brother & How To Sleep At Night, Ron Deibert

Digital media, civil society, power, vulnerabilities and serious risks. Threat actors know everything about you. Discussion covers what their attacks look like what can be done.

May 1, 2017
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Sponsored by
Neukom Institute
Audience
Public
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Christine Alberga
603 646 8737
Citizen Lab has written regularly about the digital crisis facing civil society, exposing threats against targets ranging from Tibetans to Ethiopian journalists, from the Syrian opposition to UAE activists, and beyond. While digital media have empowered civil society to learn, educate, organize, and make themselves heard by those in power, the vulnerabilities inherent in our technologies have also exposed civil society to serious risks. The ability of threat actors (particularly those with links to states) to know everything about you and your networks, to even predict your future actions, and to respond accordingly, is unparalleled. Not even physical borders keep one safe anymore. Drawing from recent reports and research of the Citizen Lab, This presentation will outline how Citizen Lab undertakes the research it has done on targeted attacks on civil society, what those attacks look like, and what might be done to mitigate them.  

Biographical note

Ron Deibert, (OOnt, PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development laboratory working at the intersection of the digital technologies, global security, and human rights. He was a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative (2003-2014) and Information Warfare Monitor (2003-2012) projects. Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon, one of the world’s leading digital censorship circumvention services.
Location
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Sponsored by
Neukom Institute
Audience
Public
More information
Christine Alberga
603 646 8737