Announcement: Greg Walton joins Citizen Lab as Senior SecDev Fellow
I am pleased to announce that Greg Walton will be joining the Citizen Lab. Greg Walton is the senior security researcher for ONI Asia, and the first SecDev fellow at the Citizen Lab. He is a graduate of the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford (International Relations and Security Studies), and holds an MSc [...]
Experts: Internet filtering and censorship rife
Published on CNN.com August 21, 2008 LONDON, England (CNN) — Believe the conspiracy theories — out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet. The recent conflict between Georgia and Russia has highlighted many of the issues at play with Internet filtering, as its increasing use by [...]
CBC National report on the Citizen Lab
On March 21, 2008, the CBC National ran a feature piece on the research and development activities of the Citizen Lab, including the ONI and psiphon. There are interviews with me, and with Nart Villeneuve. You can watch the piece here. The youtube version is here And here:
CBC Search Engine, Nature, and Digital Nation
Some recent items on psiphon, the ONI’s new volume, Access Denied, and others to report: I did an interview with Jesse Brown of CBC’s search engine on psiphon. The full interview, including Mike Hull’s psiphon theme song, is available here (Note: The interview with me starts at 16 minutes, 15 seconds into the podcast). Bruce [...]
ONI Burma Report – Pulling the Plug
The OpenNet Initiative has compiled a bulletin on the recent demonstrations in Burma and the Burmese government’s shutdown of the Internet there. ONI conducted a technical analysis of the Internet’s uptime, documenting a complete shutdown in Burma, followed by intermittent periods of up-time throughout early October, with an apparent return to full connection on October [...]
TVO The Agenda Interview on Burma/ONI/Psiphon
I did a one on one interview with host Steve Paikin of TVO’s the Agenda. The episode page is here, where you can downoad the video and audio podcast of the interview. We cover events in Burma, the OpenNet Initiative and psiphon.
Myanmar's Net Curtain Begins To Lift
From Forbes.com According to Ron Deibert, director at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and an investigator at the OpenNet Initiative. “Now that the government’s crackdown has succeeded, they’re beginning to let information trickle out again,” he says. Deibert speculates that even for a country as repressive as Myanmar, the cost of shutting off all [...]
Radio Free Europe
June 5, 2007 (RFE/RL) – State censorship of the Internet is growing and the techniques used are becoming increasingly sophisticated, according to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI), a partnership of British, US, and Canadian universities. The group has released an initial list of countries engaged in Internet censorship, which includes China, Iran, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. The [...]
Irrepressible.Info Amnesty International
I will be participating in Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.info one year anniversary conference, the details for which can be found here. We at the OpenNet Initiative have been providing background information and data for the campaign. Here is a Guardian/Observer story on the upcoming event, and the way in which the campaign has had an impact [...]
ONI Oxford Conference — Media Coverage
The first ONI woodstock is over. I had a very productive time, and particularly enjoyed the debate at the Oxford Union. Here are a few selected media stories about the ONI’s reports: International Herald Tribue Sci-Tech Today National Post archived here locally CityTV …and here is a separate news item in the Guardian UK on [...]