TIFF Debut

September 15, 2016

A film adaptation of Ron Deibert’s 2013 book Black Code is premiering this week at the Toronto International Film Festival highlighting how the same technologies that can accelerate democratic change can also be used to restrict individual liberties, taking viewers to Tibetan exiles under Chinese surveillance in India, media activists in Brazil and Syrian citizens tortured for opposing the regime through Facebook posts. Ron Deibert is professor of Political Science and Director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The full U of T News article is available here.