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Global news is bleak, but discussing ways to reverse autocratization can give hope! This Friday (07.03) at 18:30. Stellar panel on Poland: Laura Jäckel, @annawojcik.bsky.social, @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social @jmorijn.bsky.social, judge Zabludowska Modreated Joe Finnerty @academycologne.bsky.social

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@cyn-k.bsky.social & @kate-ro.bsky.social on US-Canada CLOUD Act: "...the Canadian government must reconsider and carefully assess its potential bilateral and international data-sharing obligations with foreign partners, such as the United States." citizenlab.ca/2025/02/cana...

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Early scholars job! The Amsterdam Center for International Law is hiring two postdocs and a PhD researcher for our European Research Council Starting Grant project on the effectiveness of regional human rights regimes: acil.uva.nl/content/news...

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Great conversation with @arzugeybulla.bsky.social @mmichae1sen.bsky.social & Sarah Sheikh Ali @rightscon.org on digital transnational repression and what resistance and resilience mechanisms exist & need to be developed - thank you! For @citizenlab.ca on this issue see: citizenlab.ca/category/res...

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Together with @sanstis.bsky.social @arzugeybulla.bsky.social & Sarah Sheikh Ali we'll be discussing Digital Transnational Repression in an online session at RightsCon @accessnow.org rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-...

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Even after Assad’s fall, #disinformation in #Syria is thriving. In an opinion piece in @timep.bsky.social, The Citizen Lab’s @noura.bsky.social discusses how foreign powers and non-state actors exploit social media to manipulate narratives and spread fear. Read more here: timep.org/2025/01/30/t...

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In an opinion piece for @theglobeandmail.com, The Citizen Lab’s @emiledirks.bsky.social, @sanstis.bsky.social, @noura.bsky.social & @rondeibert.bsky.social underscore how the #HogueCommission’s report missed an opportunity to address transnational repression. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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New article with @rondeibert.bsky.social on the impacts of digital transnational repression on HRDs in exile as part of @knightcolumbia.org's new series on the "First Amendment and the Exchange of Ideas Across Borders."

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NEW article: How should host states, like the 🇺🇸, respond to the growing surge of digital transnational repression (DTR)? Thanks @katygb.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org @jameeljaffer.bsky.social for inviting @sanstis.bsky.social and me to write about this topic, & @citizenlab.ca's research on DTR

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Citizen Lab's @sanstis.bsky.social & @rondeibert.bsky.social write about surveillance as censorship--another installment in "Regardless of Frontiers," @knightcolumbia.org's series about speech and/at the border. knightcolumbia.org/content/sile...

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"Considering the threat that cyber-surveillance tools may pose to civic freedoms, open societies should strive to ensure, despite the technical & legal difficulties, that cyber-surveillance tools do not fall into the hands of actors who seek to misuse them." @sipri.org www.sipri.org/commentary/t...

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In a Q&A for the Digital Front Lines report by Foreign Policy Analytics (@foreignpolicy.com), human rights activist Carine Kanimba and @rondeibert.bsky.social discuss the human cost of spyware and call for international collaboration to combat its abuse. digitalfrontlines.io/2025/01/31/s...

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Last week CityNews journalist Faiza Amin sat down with @rondeibert.bsky.social to discuss his new book Chasing Shadows and the dangerous rise of unregulated mercenary surveillance. Watch it here: toronto.citynews.ca/video/2025/0...

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Our first network security analysis of the popular social media app, #RedNote, has revealed some major red flags 🚩🚩🚩. The app is used by over 300 million users worldwide - but its network encryption falls short. Read the report: citizenlab.ca/2025/02/netw...

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If you happen to be @RightsCon later this month — join us to talk about regulating spyware.

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Op-ed in the Globe & Mail along with @noura.bsky.social @emiledirks.bsky.social @rondeibert.bsky.social on the failure of the Canadian Hogue commission on foreign interference to review transnational repression in Canada.

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📣 New book! 📣 Dr. Larissa van den Herik & myself have a book coming out in March titled "Transnational Repression and International Law." Excited to see the result of this excellent collaboration and I hope it's useful for TNR/international law scholars & govt policymakers working on the issue.

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Update from @freedomhouse.bsky.social on the global practice of transnational repression. Highlights include the weaponization of terrorism allegations to legitimize acts of transnational repression & the role of cooperation between host and home state governments to enable such practices.

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Dounia is an exiled journalist living in France. After exposing Morocco's use of #spyware against politicians, she became the target of physical and sexual harassment spread across both traditional media and social platforms. Read her story of resilience: citizenlab.ca/case-studies...

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After Fatima fled to the UK, the Syrian state-sponsored attacks continued. Both the regime and anti-regime groups continue to target her, both online and offline, making her journalism a high-risk endeavour. Learn how this impacts her: citizenlab.ca/case-studies... #digitaltransnationalrepression

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📢 Work with us! The Citizen Lab is looking for a Systems & Security Technical Lead to join our team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the strategic and tactical approach to risk management, systems security & compliance at The Citizen Lab. Apply by February 20 👉🏽 citizenlab.ca/2025/01/job-...

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Something rotten, though not in Denmark. We're reporting on the 2nd person to come forward who received a notification about being targeted by spyware made by Paragon. This time it's Husam El Gomati. On Friday it was @fcancellato.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Human Rights Watch and MENA Rights Group: Algerian authorities have increasingly used arbitrary travel bans to retaliate against perceived critics. The authorities should lift the arbitrary bans and stop using them as a tool to repress dissent. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

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This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵

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❗️ Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society using WhatsApp were targeted by spyware owned by Paragon Solutions, an Israeli maker of hacking software, the company alleged today. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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The @ukparliament.parliament.uk's Human Rights Committee have launched a new inquiry into #TransnationalRepression in the UK 👇 committees.parliament.uk/work/8867/tr... This inquiry is currently accepting evidence.

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Hey everyone I'm super excited to announce I have a new book forthcoming with Simon & Schuster!! "Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the Global Fight for Democracy" It's a series of chronicles of the last 20 years of Citizen Lab sleuthing www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Chasin...

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I wrote about the the TikTok ban in the @theglobeandmail.com. I argue the ban is dead for a few reasons, but mostly because its' design failed to account for the new era that Trump's admin represents: persistent weaponization of tech and state power: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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The UK Joint Committee on Human Rights has launched an inquiry into transnational repression. The Committee is soliciting evidence on TNR (deadline February 24): committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

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New #ASILInsight today by @profbenperrin.bsky.social on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems & International Law: Growing Momentum Towards a New International Treaty. Read for free at asil.org/insights/volume/29/issue/1

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BREAKING: We’re suing the Trump administration to block the president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. An executive order does not have the power to override the Constitution.

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Join Prof. Mary Bosworth as she introduces her new book—the first study of immigration detainee escorting in the UK. Discover how this system operates like a supply chain, its punitive effects, and its implications for border control. More info: https://buff.ly/4fUKrn3

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NEW: 1000s of apps appear in leaked data from location data firm Gravy, including popular apps like Candy Crush, Tinder, Grindr, and many others. @josephcox.bsky.social of @404media.co reports in collab w/ @wired.com www.wired.com/story/gravy-... 404's version here: www.404media.co/candy-crush-...

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European Court of Human Rights to rule next Tuesday (7th January) on whether Greece breached ECHR due to alleged 'pushbacks' of asylum seekers - hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng-press?i=...

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DRC has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France & Belgium, accusing the tech co of using conflict minerals in its supply chain. Some artisanal mines are run by armed groups involved in massacres of civilians, mass rapes, looting & other crimes. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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Really looking forward to this 👇🏼

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www.justsecurity.org/105538/inter...

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The Irish Centre for Human Rights is hiring! We are currently advertising a permanent lecturer post with an emphasis on human rights and climate/environment (climate justice, conflict and peacebuilding, minority rights, indigenous peoples). More info at: www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/

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ACLU is hiring an Algorithmic Justice Fellow to work on cutting edge projects focused on digital rights! Come work with us to interrogate how automated systems are being used in high stakes areas. Please share widely! www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

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We just opened a call for 2-4 Associate Professors at our Department at the University of Oslo. The call is open to all specialisations of political science but there are some teaching areas where we especially need capacity. Deadline is Feb 3: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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NGO Reporters without Borders sues X in French courts for participation in identity theft and promotion of disinformation - rsf.org/en/rsf-press... (not clear if this is an attempt to enforce the Digital Services Act privately, or brought under national law)

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NEW REPORT: In a joint investigation with The First Department, we uncovered spyware covertly implanted on the phone of a Russian programmer following his release from Russian custody. citizenlab.ca/2024/12/devi...

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🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: When Kirill Parubets was released from a harrowing detention by 🇷🇺#Russia's FSB, he got his phone back.. It was covertly bugged with spyware... New @citizenlab.ca investigative collab w/legal aid org First Dept. READ: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/devi... #infosec #cybersecurity

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Immediately after Donald Trump won the US election, postal orders of abortion pills spiked across the country At the same time, the country’s biggest provider of reproductive health services saw appointments for IUDs increase by 8x

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