Submission of the Citizen Lab (Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto) to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Dubravka Šimonović November 2, 2017 For all inquiries related to this submission, please contact: Dr. Ronald J. Deibert Director, The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
[email protected] Contributors to this report (in alphabetical order): Dr. Ronald J. Deibert, Professor of Political Science; Director, The Citizen Lab Lex Gill, Research Fellow, The Citizen Lab Tamir Israel, Staff Lawyer, Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) Chelsey Legge, Clinic Student, International Human Rights Program (IHRP), University of Toronto Irene Poetranto, Senior Researcher and Doctoral Student, The Citizen Lab Amitpal Singh, Research Assistant, The Citizen Lab Acknowledgements: We would also like to thank Gillian T. Hnatiw (Partner, Lerners LLP), Samer Muscati (Director, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto), Miles Kenyon (Communications Officer, The Citizen Lab), Sarah McKune (Senior Researcher, The Citizen Lab), Jon Penney (Assistant Professor of Law; Director, Law & Technology Institute, Schulich School of Law) and Maria Xynou (Research and Partnerships Coordinator, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)) for their support in the creation of this report. Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 About the Citizen Lab 2 The nature of technology-facilitated violence,