Video: How government surveillance leads to self-censorship and The Chilling Effect

In 2016, Jonathon Penney – an Assistant Professor of Law at Dalhousie University, and a Research Fellow at The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto – published an article in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal that provides evidence of “regulatory ‘chilling effects’ of Wikipedia users associated with online government surveillance.”

Penney’s findings leave readers with several questions. The most significant being, what does this mean for a democratic society?

Perhaps the answer to that question lies in the more personal question, have the post-Snowden revelations altered your online behaviour?

To find out more, I highly recommend checking out The Citizen Lab’s reports and reading Black Code by Ron Deibert.

Victoria

Victoria is a historian and political scientist, as well as a writer, producer, and photographer. As a third-culture-kid who grew up in Saudi Arabia, she hopes to use her background and perspective to educate people about the world, and themselves. You can find her wandering around most mornings drinking a mocha, listening to BBC-radio and talking to strangers.

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