Kate Robertson
CanadaresearcherFemale5.0Global Dominance: 0.01%Kate Robertson is a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, where she focuses on digital threats to civil society and privacy issues. Recently, she highlighted the growing concerns regarding the use of spyware technology by Canadian authorities, emphasizing the urgent need for law reform to address security and human rights risks.
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The report, co-authored by Kate Robertson, senior research associate at the Citizen Lab, based in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, said government agencies 'still hold out hope or hubris that surveillance-driven compromises in companies’ secure networks will not be exploited by commercial or state-backed threat actors.'
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Kate Robertson is a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
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