Dr. Ron Deibert, an international expert on surveillance and privacy, will open the 2014 Information without Borders conference with the keynote address The Internet after Snowden.

Professor of Political Science and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Dr. Deibert is also a co-founder and principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects. He has published extensively on technology, media, and world politics, and he has advised governments, NGOs, and international organizations on issues of cyber-crime, cyber security, and access to information. With recent reports that Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) allegedly used information from free wireless internet at Canadian airports to track traveller’s metadata, Dr. Deibert was called upon to engage in discussion about this matter and he continues to be a key resource on the surveillance and privacy subjects for national and international news outlets. In his keynote address at this week’s conference at Dalhousie, Dr. Deibert will outline disturbing reactions and threatening geopolitical developments to the Snowden revelations as states, criminals, and shady companies struggle for advantage in the post-Snowden world.

The Information without Borders conference is organized by students in the Master of Library and Information Studies program at Dalhousie. Further details about the conference are available at this link.