The ascendancy of authoritarianism around the world is facilitated by powerful new surveillance tools, new modes of censorship, and legal regimes that have failed to keep pace with technological change. Join Ron Deibert, cybersecurity expert and director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, for a discussion of the rise of digital authoritarianism and the fight for our democratic freedoms. The discussion will be informed by Deibert’s just-released book, Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy, which addresses the marketplace for high-tech surveillance, professional disinformation, and computerized malfeasance. Sheila Coronel, director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, will introduce and moderate the discussion.

Copies of Chasing Shadows will be available for purchase and post-discussion signing.

This event is co-sponsored by the Knight First Amendment Institute; Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism; Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism; Brown Institute for Media Innovation; Columbia School of International and Public Affairs's Technology, Media, and Communications specialization; the NYU Democracy Project; and the New York Southeast Asia Network.