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Do Students Want Vaccine Mandates?

September 1, 2022

Governments, universities, and students are confronting challenges associated with a return to in-person classes for the 2021 academic year. Thus far, the debate on a safe return to classes has either focused on government, in relation to ongoing political conversations already occurring, or at the university-level, between university staff, faculty, and administration; surprisingly little attention has been paid to what students prefer when they return to school. An evolving area of policy change at the post-secondary level relates to vaccine mandates.

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GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement

July 18, 2022

Generally, Thai authorities have permitted greater freedom of expression on the Internet than other forms of state-controlled mass media. However, the 2006 and 2014 coups resulted in new laws and policies that transformed the Internet’s role as a platform for political exchanges and debates. For example, the Computer-Related Crime Act B.E 2550 (2007) (also known as the 2007 Computer Crime Act (CCA))—the very first legislation passed by the military-appointed legislature after the 2006 coup—is often applied in conjunction with the lèse-majesté law. In January 2021, a former civil servant pleaded guilty to 29 counts of lèse-majesté for uploading clips on social media that allegedly contained defamatory comments against the monarchy. The former civil servant received an 87 year prison sentence, which was later reduced to 43 years on appeal.

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EGL co-director Steven Bernstein in Nature Sustainability

June 24, 2022

By Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit, Marianne Beisheim, Steven Bernstein, Pamela Chasek, Leonie Grob, Rakhyun E. Kim, Louis J. Kotzé, Måns Nilsson, Andrea Ordóñez Llanos, Chukwumerije Okereke, Prajal Pradhan, Rob Raven, Yixian Sun, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Detlef van Vuuren & Birka Wicke June 20, 2022 Abstract In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals...

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New Citizen Lab Report — Project Torogoz: Extensive Hacking of Media & Civil Society in El Salvador with Pegasus Spyware

January 12, 2022

Key Findings from Citizen Lab Our latest report uncovers a massive hacking campaign against media and civil society in El Salvador using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Together with our colleagues at Access Now, and in collaboration with Frontline Defenders, SocialTIC...

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New North Star II: A Challenge-Driven Industrial Strategy for the Age of Intangibles

April 29, 2020

Intangibles are the new basis for competition, and the U.S.-China tech “cold war” is changing assumptions about global commerce and geopolitics. Along with co-author Royce Mendes, Munk School’s Sean Speer and Robert Asselin make the case for a bold policy...

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Combating Corruption in Global Health

August 15, 2017

BY TIM K. MACKEY, JILLIAN KOHLER, MAUREEN LEWIS AND TARYN VIAN Corruption is a critical challenge to global health efforts, and combating it requires international action, advocacy, and research. An article by Tim K. Mackey, Jillian Kohler, Maureen Lewis and Taryn...

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Reckless IV: Lawyers for Murdered Mexican Women’s Families Targeted with NSO Spyware

August 3, 2017

This Citizen Lab research note reveals newly-discovered infection attempts using NSO Group’s government-exclusive Pegasus spyware. The targets were Karla Micheel Salas and David Peña, Mexican lawyers and human rights defenders representing the families of Nadia Vera, Yesenia Quiroz Alfaro, and Mile...

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Reckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO Spyware

June 19, 2017

This report shows how 10 Mexican journalists and human rights defenders, one minor child, and one United States citizen, were targeted with NSO Group’s Exploit Framework.

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Tainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian Nexus

May 25, 2017

This Citizen Lab report describes an extensive Russia-linked phishing and disinformation campaign. It provides evidence of how documents stolen from a prominent journalist and critic of Russia was tampered with and then “leaked” to achieve specific propaganda aims. Citizen Lab researchers...

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We (can’t) Chat: “709 Crackdown” Discussions Blocked on Weibo and WeChat

April 13, 2017

This report from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs reveals how discussions about a nationwide government crackdown on rights lawyers and activists in China are censored on WeChat and Weibo, two of the leading social networks in China....

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