The Paul Wells Show podcast to launch mid-September
September 9, 2022
https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/paul-wells-show-podcast-launch/
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Engrave Danger: An Analysis of Apple Engraving Censorship across Six Regions
August 18, 2021
August 18, 2021 — Researchers from the Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, have conducted a novel analysis of Apple’s product engraving services, finding uneven, opaque, and at times thoughtless censorship practices. The report looks at engravings in six...
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University of Toronto’s Reach Alliance expands to University of Oxford, University College London and Tecnológico de Monterrey
April 30, 2021
April 30, 2021 (Toronto) — The Reach Alliance, a research initiative based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, announced today at its annual symposium that it is expanding its model to three major...
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Dark Basin: Uncovering a Massive Hack-For-Hire Operation
June 9, 2020
June 9, 2020 — A new report by researchers at the Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, reveals an enormous hack-for-hire operation that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions around the globe. Targets included advocacy...
Read full entryWe Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus
May 7, 2020
May 7, 2020 — A new report by researchers at the Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, reveals that popular social media app WeChat surveils all users—even those with accounts registered outside of China—and uses messages from those...
Read full entryCensored Contagion: How information on the coronavirus is managed on Chinese social media
March 3, 2020
Toronto, March 3, 2020 — A new report by researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy reveals that keywords related to the coronavirus have been censored on two popular...
Read full entryMISSING LINK: Tibetan Groups Targeted with Mobile Exploits
September 24, 2019
Toronto, September 24, 2019 – Researchers at the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, have discovered the first documented case of one-click mobile exploits used to target groups in the Tibetan diaspora, reflecting an escalation in the sophistication of digital espionage...
Read full entryMind the Funding Gap: Transit Financing in Los Angeles County and Metro Vancouver
March 22, 2019
Toronto, March 21, 2019 – In many North American cities, municipal leaders have developed ambitious long-term transportation plans, yet local officials often concede that existing revenues streams are inadequate to finance such plans. Municipalities may lack either the legal authority...
Read full entryNew IMFG paper highlights lack of diversity in the infrastructure industry
January 10, 2019
Toronto, January 10, 2019 – A new paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy finds that the departments, firms, and companies that are at the heart...
Read full entryCanada and the Global Compact on Migration: Law, Politics, and Process beyond the Rhetoric
December 7, 2018
Next week, Canada will sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in Marrakesh, Morocco starting Monday, December 10th 2019. The non-binding document is the result of two years of international negotiation. It sets 23 distinct objectives for...
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