News Summary

• Ron Deibert is the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses.
• On Wednesday, he will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas.
• He plans to speak about what he describes as a “descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism,” and the role that the Big Tech platforms are playing.
• “I think alarm bells need to be rung for this community that, at the very least, they should be aware of what’s going on,’ he said.