Chasing shadows with The Citizen Lab

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Feb 20, 2026•21 min

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The early Internet was ushered in with this widespread hope about its utopian possibilities. But the founder of The Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert, suspected there was a dark underbelly of government surveillance and censorship lying beneath and he was determined to unmask it.

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