Noura Aljizawi

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Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab, UofT

"The Autocrat in Your iPhone
How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy" by @rondeibert

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/autocrat-in-your-iphone-mercenary-spyware-ronald-deibert

The Autocrat in Your iPhone

How mercenary spyware threatens democracy.

Foreign Affairs
How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters
“After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country’s all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/china-protests-surveillance.html
How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters

After a weekend of protests, the authorities in China are using the country’s all-seeing surveillance apparatus to find those bold enough to defy them.

We produced this animation that features some of our research participants' stories and summarizes our recommendation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkPCec7jG5I&t=2s
Digital Transnational Repression Explained

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@citizenlab @rondeibert @insyria
In March this year, we released our first report on digital transnational repression in Canada
"Psychological and Emotional War- Digital Transnational Repression in Canada"
https://citizenlab.ca/2022/03/psychological-emotional-war-digital-transnational-repression-canada/
Psychological and Emotional War: Digital Transnational Repression in Canada - The Citizen Lab

In this report, we describe how activists and dissidents living in Canada are impacted by digital transnational repression. We conclude that digital transnational repression has a serious impact on these communities, including their ability to undertake transnational advocacy work related to human rights. Yet, there is little support for victims who experience such targeting and policy efforts by the Canadian government to date have been insufficient.

The Citizen Lab
Exposing how Iran tracks and threatens people in Canada, CBC spoke to victims of transnational repression and digital transnational repression who are being threatened by the IRI.
CBC also featured our work @citizenlab @rondeibert @insyria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yB0JaTHzpo
Exposing how Iran tracks and threatens people in Canada

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This is huge! The Paris Court of Appeal confirms the indictment of Amesys and two of its executives for complicity in torture through selling digital surveillance equipment to the Gaddafi's regime.
https://www.fidh.org/en/impacts/Surveillance-torture-Libya-Paris-Court-Appeal-indictment-AMESYS
Surveillance and torture in Libya: The Paris Court of Appeal confirms the indictment of Amesys and its executives, and cancels that of two employees

Paris, November 21, 2022 - In a ruling handed down today, the Investigative Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeal cancelled the indictment of two (…)

International Federation for Human Rights
How inauthentic Facebook accounts targeted detained Moroccan journalists

As Moroccan authorities surveilled, harassed, and eventually imprisoned the journalists Omar Radi and Soulaimane Raissouni, an inauthentic and coordinated campaign on Facebook complemented this…

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