Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/
Big news for spyware accountability in the UK 🇬🇧, where judges continue to rule in favour of dissidents and dismiss governments' arguments for sovereign immunity 👇 www.reuters.com/world/bahrai...
Bahrain loses bid to block dissidents' spyware lawsuit in UKBahrain cannot claim state immunity to block a lawsuit brought in Britain by two dissidents who say its government hacked their laptops with spyware, the United Kingdom's Supreme Court ruled on Mond...www.reuters.comNot a single genuine public interest based argument here. It's entirely corporate players framing their competing private commercial interests with window-dressing allusions to "safety" or "innovation" or "democratization" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/t...
Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I.Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.www.nytimes.comCanadian government urged to block data-sharing deal between Thomson Reuters and US ICE www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Canadian government urged to block data-sharing deal between Thomson Reuters and US ICEICE will pay Canadian media giant US$125m to use its investigative database to identify ‘immigration fraud’www.theguardian.comYet another short-term cash grab that will likely come back to haunt AKA "moralizing" is out of style; let's win bigly at any expense Canada's AI champion Cohere in partnership with the UAE www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
U.S. Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists *and Their Relatives* (!!) over Reporting on Trump's Audacious "Graft Jet" from Qatar www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
Trump Administration Sought Phone Records of Times Journalists and Their RelativesThe government is aggressively seeking the confidential sources of Times reporters who wrote about the president’s new Air Force One. The Times has asked a judge to quash the subpoenas.www.nytimes.comCanadian 🇨🇦 forensic company Magnet suing a former employee for disclosing an Apple zero-day the company was hoarding & exploiting to crack iPhones "the public disclosure...alerted Apple to the flaw and allowed it to be..fixed, reducing its value..." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of SecretsMagnet Forensics Inc., a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm.www.bloomberg.comCanada's 🇨🇦 proposed lawful access law (Bill C22) is so bad it even has US Senators (like @wyden.senate.gov) worried it will create national security spying risks for Americans 🇺🇸! www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked. | grist.org/article/exxo... Great piece by @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social @grist.org on targeted espionage against climate activists, following up on our @citizenlab.ca Dark Basin investigation (citizenlab.ca/research/dar...)
They wanted to hold Exxon accountable. Then they got hacked.A decade after climate activists' emails were breached, a court case is shedding new light on who allegedly orchestrated the hacking.grist.orgLike all authoritarian regimes, Trump's is using law enforcement to target and intimidate investigative journalists in increasingly brazen ways www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media (Gift Article)The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”www.nytimes.comGreek wiretapping victims sue spyware firm Intellexa for damages www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Greek wiretapping victims sue spyware firm Intellexa for damagesEight victims of a Greek wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens-based surveillance firm Intellexa SA and individuals believed to be linked to it, seeking €1 million ($1.1 million) each for moral ha...www.reuters.comTaiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network The probe corroborates @icij.org & @citizenlab.ca findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing. www.icij.org/investigatio...
Taiwanese authorities charge executives who helped China’s cyber spies target ICIJ network - ICIJThe Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau probe corroborates ICIJ and Citizen Lab’s findings that attacks against journalists were part of a coordinated espionage campaign sponsored by Beijing.www.icij.orgEU 🇪🇺 urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEP Good overview our latest @citizenlab.ca report and its growing impact 👇 www.theregister.com/security/202...
EU urged to act after Pegasus infects phone of spyware inquiry MEPCampaigners demand investigation and long-delayed action on PEGA Committee recommendationswww.theregister.comProbe finds former MEP investigating Pegasus was hacked with Pegasus The revelation raises questions about whether the work of the Parliament’s inquiry committee was compromised. www.politico.eu/article/prob...
Probe finds former MEP investigating Pegasus was hacked with PegasusThe revelation raises questions about whether the work of the Parliament’s inquiry committee was compromised.www.politico.euFormer European Parliament Member Stelios Kouloglou Targeted by Pegasus While Probing Europe's Illegal Surveillance Scandal - Dnews www.dnews.gr/eidhseis/new...
Former European Parliament Member Stelios Kouloglou Targeted by Pegasus While Probing Europe's Illegal Surveillance Scandal - DnewsKouloglou's mobile phone was infected at least twice with Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group. New findings have added a troubling twist to Europe's...www.dnews.grPolitician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware | @lorenzofb.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/p...
Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware | TechCrunchA government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyw...techcrunch.comSpyware found on phone of European Parliament member probing it @suzannesmalley.bsky.social therecord.media/pegasus-spyw...
Spyware found on phone of European Parliament member probing itStelios Kouloglou, formerly a member of the European Parliament's committee investigation abuses of commercial spyware, was twice infected with Pegasus while serving, researchers said.therecord.media
