Ron Deibert

@rondeibert.bsky.social

Director of The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Author of Chasing Shadows https://chasingshadowsbook.ca/

@noura.bsky.socialReposted by @rondeibert.bsky.social

I first met Ahmad Alia in 2012; upon my transfer from Palestine branch to 215. He was responsible for “welcoming” detainees. I and other women detained at the 215, including my younger sister, all suffered from his abuses. He is accused of SGBV, torture & killing more than 500 detainees

Picture of Ahmad Mayhob Alia, a former security officer under Assad and one of the war criminals who will soon be on trial in Syria
@alondra.bsky.socialReposted by @rondeibert.bsky.social

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

@davidakaye.bsky.socialReposted by @rondeibert.bsky.social

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

David Kaye@davidakaye.bsky.social

the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.

forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project: Inside the Trump administration's secret deals to expel people worldwide - Forbidden Stories72 journalists, 26 news organizations, 15 countries: a global investigation into the Trump administration’s secret third-country deportation system
forbiddenstories.orgThe Deportation Project MapBetween 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
@rondeibert.bsky.social

At @citizenlab.ca we spend enormous time labouring over the ethical and legal limits to our investigative methods (for good reason!)

If we didn't, we'd surely be shut down.

Meanwhile AI platforms routinely unleash their systems to hack left, right and centre *without consequence*

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@raphae.liReposted by @rondeibert.bsky.social

So more than 24 hours after we scooped the news that OpenAI’s agents had hijacked a small German wiki site and commandeered it as a comms platform, OpenAI acknowledges what it calls a “wiki incident.”

www.reuters.com/business/med...

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