Book Launch – Ronald J. Deibert: Chasing Shadows

Join us for a gripping account of how the Citizen Lab, the world’s foremost digital watchdog, has uncovered dozens of cyber espionage cases and how it continues to protect people in countries around the world.

In this real-life spy thriller, cyber security expert Ronald Deibert details the unseemly marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance. He reveals how his team of digital sleuths at the Citizen Lab have lifted the lid on dozens of covert operations targeting innocent citizens everywhere.

Chasing Shadows provides a front-row seat to a dark underworld of digital espionage, disinformation, and subversion. There, autocrats and dictators peer into their targets’ lives with the mere press of a button, spreading their tentacles of authoritarianism through a digital ecosystem that is insecure, poorly regulated, and prone to abuse. The activists, opposition figures, and journalists who dare to advocate for basic political rights and freedoms are hounded, arrested, tortured, and sometimes murdered.

About Ronald J. Deibert

Ronald J. Deibert is the founder and director of the Citizen Lab, a world-renowned digital security research centre at the University of Toronto. The bestselling author of Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society and Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet, he has also written many landmark articles and reports on espionage operations that infiltrated government and NGO computer networks. His team’s exposés of the spyware that attacks journalists and anti-corruption advocates around the world have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, and other media. Deibert has received multiple honours for his cutting-edge work, and in 2022 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada—the country’s second-highest honour.

Event details

Date

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Time

7:00 p.m. (Eastern time)

Admission

Free admission; registration is required

Location

Library and Archives Canada

Event address

395 Wellington Street, Ottawa (Ontario)

Registration

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