
Irene P. Poetranto
@irenepoet
Indonesian by design, Canadian by location | #rationalcatlady | #cyber, #gender, #SoutheastAsia | PhD @UofT_PolSci | Researcher @citizenlab, @munkschool, @UofT
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BREAKING: Last fall, The Citizen Lab obtained a zero click, zero day Pegasus exploit from a Saudi activists' hacked device, who chose to remain anonymous. Now she has come forward: Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul reuters.com/technology/how… Chris Bing Joel Schectman

(6/36) TVD22: Tue 11:00 - 12:30 The #Internet as a Research Tool: Using Large-Scale Internet Data to Study Digital #Censorship Chairs @TFreyburg & Lisa Garbe Disc. Suso Baleato & Sarah Parts. Daniëlle Flonk; Joss Wright; Stephen Meserve; Irene P. Poetranto; @adamsenft; #ISA2022



In part three of MIT Technology Review’s AI Colonialism series, we head to Indonesia, where a strong sense of community has protected ride-hailing drivers from the unforgiving nature of algorithmic management. A playbook of resistance for gig workers globally. technologyreview.com/2022/04/21/105…

As policymakers and global health leaders come together for the second #GlobalCOVIDSummit, we asked Isobel Cockerell @democracytalk Irene P. Poetranto @rouvinski to comment on trends in authoritarianism and its effect on democracy. ned.org/the-big-questi…

Congrats to the team at “Otherwise,” a new e-magazine by and for BIPOC women and allies Political Science! The e-mag features contributions from AI alumni Yujia Jade Shi and Irene P. Poetranto and receives faculty support from Diana Fu. Read it here: munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/feature/oth…



Authoritarian governments exploit genuine problems like dangerous online content as an opportunity to grab even more power. Read Kirsten Han on Singapore’s proposed internet safety laws: restofworld.org/2022/singapore…

NEW REPORT: Discovery of an extensive espionage campaign in Thailand 🇹🇭 involving the abuse of NSO Group’s #Pegasus spyware In collaboration with iLawFX #นิรโทษกรรมประชาชน and DigitalReach citizenlab.ca/2022/07/geckos…


Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of at least 11 journalists at Narasi were hijacked today while several others managed to regained control of theirs, after the news outlet’s cofounder Najwa Shihab became a target of social media attacks earlier in the week cnnindonesia.com/nasional/20220…



Our partner Sinar Project published 8 new research reports on internet censorship in #Cambodia, #HongKong, #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #Myanmar, #Philippines, #Thailand, and #Vietnam based on the analysis of OONI data! 🐙 ooni.org/post/2022-imap… Congrats to iMAP partners! 👏❤️


🚨🧵Two years after the military coup in Myanmar, a report exclusively obtained by BBC Newsnight and @BBCTrending shows female supporters of democracy are being systematically targeted with hate speech, abuse and doxxing. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar 🇲🇲


