Citizen Lab: Lab and Citizen

citizen lab: In both cases, the researchers believe they were secretly recorded. ; Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert described the stunts as a new low, according to The Japan Times. We condemn these sinister, underhanded activities in the strongest possible terms, he said in a statement Friday. Twice in the past two months, men masquerading as socially conscious investors have lured members of the Citizen Lab internet watchdog group to meetings at luxury hotels to quiz them for hours about their work exposing Israeli surveillance and the details of their personal lives. Such a deceitful attack on an academic group like the Citizen Lab is an attack on academic freedom everywhere. Citizen Lab, based out of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, has for years played a leading role in exposing state-backed hackers operating in places as far afield as Tibet, Ethiopia and Syria. Who these operatives are working for remains a riddle, but their tactics recall those of private investigators who assume elaborate false identities to gather intelligence or compromising material on critics of powerful figures in government or business. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.