Author: Ron
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✴︎ blogToronto SUN, Jane's Intelligence Review
There have been a couple of news items recently covering the work of the Citizen Lab, the OpenNet Initiative, and some of our other projects — from rather different ends of the media spectrum. The Toronto Sun‘s Mike Strobel did a great piece on his visit to the Lab and his impressions of our activities.…
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✴︎ blogToronto Hactivists Benefit From Grant for Internet Censorship Work
There is a news item today in the CBC news about the grant to the OpenNet Initiative from the MacArthur Foundation. The grant is going to our ONI partners, the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society atHarvard Law School to fund the core ONI activities over the next several years. We are all very excited…
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✴︎ blogChina Google Search Compare
In an effort to tailor its services to the requirements of China’s Internet filtering regime, Google announced last week that it had created a special version of its search engine for the China market, Google.cn. Our OpenNet Initiative team put together a neat little search comparison tool that you can access here that allows you…
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✴︎ blogUniversities to Study Net Censorship, Surveillance
Published in The Ottawa Citizen, Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by Andrew Mayeda A University of Toronto research lab and its partners have landed $3 million U.S. to study Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. The money will go to the OpenNet Initiative, a joint project among Harvard Law School, Cambridge and Oxford universities, and University of…
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✴︎ blogNPR ON Point Radio Interview
I just did a radio interview with Tom Ashbrook on NPR’s On Point radio show. The topic was Internet censorship and surveillance worldwide. You can listen to it here. Timothy Wu of Columbia University Law School, Julien Pain of Reporters without Borders, and Declan McCullaugh of CNET were the other guests
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✴︎ blogCitizen Lab Hiring
We are going to be hiring programmers and software developers for several new phases of research and projects. Below is the first advertizement. Please circulate widely. Application window closes Jan 30th. ————- POSITION SUMMARY Software Engineer Citizen Lab Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto As a key member of the Citizen Lab Development…
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✴︎ blogNart Villeneuve in First Monday
Citizen Lab and ONI Director of Technical Research Nart Villeneuve has a great article in the most recent issue of First Monday on the Filtering Matrix Well done Nart!!
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✴︎ blogMedia Coverage of Citizen Lab and OpenNet Initiative at WSIS/Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative’s Tunisia Report generated considerable coverage, a lot of which features The Citizen Lab’s very own Director of Technical Research, Nart Villeneuve. Nart compiled the list below for archival purposes. BBC – Controversy dogs UN net gathering (pdf) BBC – Tunisia slated over net controls (pdf) BBC – Hungry for net freedom in…
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✴︎ blogNews coverage of our Tunisia Report…
Our report on Tunisia’s Internet filtering regime is picking up some news coverage. The Associated Press has a piece in wide circulation, and here is a great BBC story featuring ONI researchers Derek Bambauer and Nart Villeneuve. It appears that the spotlight on Tunisia’s filtering regime is taking center stage at WSIS. Hopefully the debates…
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✴︎ blogOpenNet Initiative Report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia
The OpenNet Initiative has released our report on Internet Filtering in Tunisia. The press release can be found here. Here is the blurb: Drawing on open sources and a detailed year-long technical investigation, ONI research describes Tunisia’s aggressive targeting and blocking of on-line content, including political opposition Web sites, human rights groups, and sites that…