Publications

Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Abbas Razaghpanah, Nicolas Christin, Phillipa Gill (2020). ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform. In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

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Zachary Weinberg, Shinyoung Cho, Nicolas Christin, Vyas Sekar, Phillipa Gill (2018). How to Catch when Proxies Lie: Verifying the Physical Locations of Network Proxies with Active Geolocation. In IMC ‘18.

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Shinyoung Cho, Rishab Nithyanand, Abbas Razaghpanah, Phillipa Gill (2017). A Churn for the Better: Localizing Censorship using Network-level Path Churn and Network Tomography. In CoNEXT ‘17.

John Bohannon, Phillipa Gill (2016). Q&A: The science of online censorship. In Science Mag.

Abbas Razaghpanah, Anke Li, Arturo Filastò, Rishab Nithyanand, Vasilis Ververis, Will Scott, Phillipa Gill (2016). Exploring the Design Space of Longitudinal Censorship Measurement Platforms. arXiv.

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Michael Pizzi (2015). Yemen rebels using Canadian software to censor Internet, report finds. Featured by Al Jazeera America, LLC..

Jakub Dalek, Ronald J. Deibert, Sarah McKune, Phillipa Gill, Adam Senft, Naser Noor (2015). Information Controls during Military Operations: The case of Yemen during the 2015 political and armed conflict. Tech Report.

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Colin Freeze (2015). Canadian software tied to Yemen civil war, report alleges. Featured by The Globe and Mail Inc..

Jillian Kestler-D’Amours (2015). Canadian Internet-filtering company accused of aiding censorship in war-torn Yemen. Featured by The Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd..

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (2015). Researchers Accuse Canadian Internet Company of Helping Yemen Censor the Web. Featured by The MOTHERBOARD Tech by Vice.

Shane Harris (2015). Canadian Web Co. Helps Yemen Censor Net. Featured by The Daily Beast.

Phillipa Gill, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Jakub Dalek, Sharon Goldberg, Adam Senft, Greg Wiseman (2015). Characterizing Web Censorship Worldwide: Another Look at the OpenNet Initiative Data. In TWEB.

Ben Jones, Tzu-Wen Lee, Nick Feamster, Phillipa Gill (2014). Automated Detection and Fingerprinting of Censorship Block Pages. In IMC ‘14.

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Jakub Dalek, Bennett Haselton, Helmi Noman, Adam Senft, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Phillipa Gill, Ronald J. Deibert (2013). A Method for Identifying and Confirming the Use of URL Filtering Products for Censorship. In IMC ‘13.